Journey to Italy (1954)

Original title

Viaggio in Italia

Directed by

Roberto Rossellini

Genre

drama film, art film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 330 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married English couple travel to Italy to sell a property. Their relationship strains under the tension of their childless marriage and cultural differences.

slow-burnmelancholicintimatereflectivecontemplativetensegrittyunderstated

What happens

Journey to Italy, also known as Voyage to Italy, is a 1954 drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play Katherine and Alex Joyce, a childless English married couple on a trip to Italy whose marriage is on the point of collapse until they are miraculously reconciled. The film was written by Rossellini and Vitaliano Brancati, but is loosely based on the 1934 novel Duo by Colette. Although the film was an Italian production, its dialogue was in English. The film’s first theatrical release occurred in Italy under the title Viaggio in Italia, with the dialogue dubbed into Italian. Journey to Italy is considered by many to be Rossellini's masterpiece, as well as a seminal work of modernist cinema due to its loose storytelling. In 2012, it was listed by Sight & Sound magazine as one of the fifty greatest films ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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