2/24/2009
Saw this movie on Turner Classic Movies this morning.
Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 for this film. That was the first time a so-called foreign language film was honored in that way.
Loren's beauty would have been enough to carry most any story, but this story is a masterpiece. This tragedy of a mother and daughter struggling in wartime Italy will rip the guts out of any parent who has ever made a fool of himself trying to protect his kids from the ubiquitous, banal evil of the world.
Check out the entry in IMDB.
(TCM alone is worth the monthly tab for cable TV, it seems to me!)
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