Umberto D.

Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian film, directed by Vittorio De Sica.

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It is possible to read into Umberto D (de Sica 1952) a sense of the moment of neorealism coming to its end. This film is both a celebration of that moment and a lamentation of its death, suggests Millicent Marcus. There is a dialectic of generational compositions which in the opening film of neorealism - commonly accepted as Rome : Open City - there is a parade of boys marching on Rome to reclaim the future -perhaps itself a reference to Mussolini's march on Rome. By comparison Umberto D opens with coverage of a march by pensioners trying to improve their plight for they have been left in poverty in post-war Italy as inflation starts to rise. The film bears witness to the failure of social change and the hoped for solidarity of early neorealism to happen. Rather than being a society welded together around notions of social solidarity Umberto D can be read as being about a society at war with itself.

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