Underplayed Gems

My Voyage to Italy (1999)

My Voyage to Italy poster
Original title
Il mio viaggio in Italia
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Genre
documentary film
Country
Italy, United States
Runtime
4h 06m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 71 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

Martin Scorsese guides viewers through Italian cinema history, focusing on neorealism and directors like Rossellini, De Sica, and Fellini. He shares how these films influenced him personally.

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What happens

My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) is a personal documentary by Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period. The films of Roberto Rossellini account for half of the films discussed in the entire documentary, dealing with his seminal influence on Italian cinema and cinema history. Other directors mentioned include Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. It was released in 1999 at a length of four hours. Two years later, it was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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