Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 neorealist drama helped put Italian movies at the center of world cinema, Richard Brody writes.
Vittorio De Sica, an actor and director, followed in the same vein with “Shoeshine,” from 1946, which is playing at Film Forum in a new restoration. The Italian title, “Sciuscià,” is a phonetic borrowing from the English word, a fact that spotlights the essence of the story, which is about the many boys who, soon after Rome’s liberation, were scrounging for cash by shining shoes—mainly the shoes of occupying American soldiers.
Much of the moral rot that’s revealed results from enduring social ills: criminal gangs and their codes of silence, a justice system that allots skilled lawyers to those who can afford them and overworked plodders to those who don’t, and the eternal contrast between the poor who struggle for subsistence and the rich who fatten themselves in restaurants on fine cuisine. Much of the action is sheer melodrama—which is no pejorative.
Michelangelo Antonioni Federico Fellini Luchino Visconti
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