Umberto D
Umberto D
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One of the masterpieces of Italian Neo-Realist cinema - the Italian postwar Renaissance. The story centers on a retired civil servant, living only on his pension, whose best friend is his dog. Unable to survive on his meager income, he sacrifices a part of his pension for his dog, and is evicted by his landlady for non-payment of rent. "Infused with so much awareness that the screen seems luminous" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). In Italian with Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1952---89 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

Umberto is an up against it pensioner, an inept con man, an ineffectual beggar (even when he gets his dog to stand in for him, by the way, the dog is magnificent), a friendless sad sack moocher , a loser who can't even do away with himself. The only person he can even half way relate to is the young, pregnant and beaten down maid in his rooming house. Even his loyal dog rejects him for a while. After they reconcile we see them skipping away into the distance to a future we can only conjecture. What does it all mean? DeSica says that the film is about an inability to communicate. Pardon me, but that sounds made up after the fact. What I saw was a bleak and tragic semi- documentary about a schmuck whose outlived whatever usefulness he ever had.

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