Under Cocteau’s inventive sleight-of-hand, this early postwar work may be the most magical and poetic adaptation of the beloved fairy tale ever filmed.
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Under Cocteau’s inventive sleight-of-hand, this early postwar work may be the most magical and poetic adaptation of the beloved fairy tale ever filmed.
Six dramatised end-of-WWII stories that bring us from Sicily to the Po Valley, the second part of Rossellini’s ‘War Trilogy’ shows us the emotions associated with the tragedy of war as well as the liberation from oppression.
An inventive treatise on living and dying, and most important of all, of loving, as a legal trial in heaven decides the fate of an airman who is literally caught in an unprecedented life-and-death scenario.