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Six of Italy’s most talented filmmakers—including Fellini and Antonioni—collaborate on this diverse ‘50s time capsule focusing on lives, mostly female, disappointed by love. Aiming for a “newly conscious kind of cinema” (as described in voiceover), the collection presents a journalistic view of city life using the actual people who experienced the events portrayed. From couples in a dance hall to prostitutes plying their trade, the film’s varied segments offer a wide-ranging examination of how mid-century mores often led to suffering, particularly for women. On the more upbeat side are Fellini’s tale of a woman longing for marriage and Alberto Lattuada’s nearly wordless portrait of men checking out women on the streets of Rome.
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