Paisan Comments

  • Casper 2022-11-13 05:10:50

    It is indeed the best trilogy (although I only watched half of Open City), I felt a sense of prostration after reading it; as Rossellini himself said, there are still a lot of "old ingredients" in Open City, Paisan is really pure and new, and more moving, especially those everyday details. To shoot realism, you have to have a belief in love. Out of studio, improvising, but still maintaining strong control and technical innovation, great...

  • Carson 2022-11-03 04:11:38

    2013/10/13 Six stories present a panorama of Italy at the end of World War II, where life is more precious and fragile because of the bright prospects on the brink of death and liberation. The six stories have both tragic sacrifices, depicting the darkness before dawn, and ordinary life scenes, reflecting the life attitude of the masses during the war; all focus on the truth, making people silent for a long time after reading.

  • Lacy 2022-10-30 10:16:25

    The story of the American soldier and the prostitute has too much stamina, because I didn't realize the mentality of the soldier at the end, but on second thought, it turned out that the soldier knew. I am even more...

  • Maudie 2022-10-27 07:13:30

    The entry point is very good, although after the investment of MGM, it is inevitable that the British and American elements added in the film will inevitably be imitated, and there is still some in-depth thinking. Two five-stars, one four-star, three three-stars, the average is four...

  • Cheyanne 2022-10-22 10:00:23

    The avi is a very interesting little story, emotional communication other than verbal communication, emotional story in a special background, the characters are both ordinary and typical, the final ending is very emotional, and the whole film has a sneaking strength in the calm. It can be seen that there are some shadows of Fellini. Compared with other new works, it is a little less tragic and compassionate, and more warm and interesting. The performance is stiff but characteristic of the...

  • Naomi 2022-09-07 04:54:05

    Bringing the crew to the war zone, from this perspective, the film's neorealism value is undoubtedly the most convincing. Each of the six melodramas is accompanied by five short warfield documentary clips. The seamless interweaving of reality and new reality gives people a novelty. The sense of immersion is even more valuable. The six stories describe the normality of the war years from the perspectives of military-civilian cooperation, refugees, love, religion, etc., and arrange the...

  • Otto 2022-07-04 22:30:44

    The second part of Rossellini's post-war trilogy, selected six stories of the Allied forces in Sicily, Naples, Rome, Florence, the church and partisans after they landed in Italy. Americans have a lot of drama, and through their contact with the local people and confrontation with the Nazi German army, they reflect the differences in many languages, cultures, class beliefs, as well as the trauma and changes brought about by the catastrophe. Archives 4K...

  • Ryleigh 2022-07-04 21:14:45

    Rossini must have felt a sense of urgency at the time, this six-story film was the equivalent of a documentary in wartime/postwar Italy. I like the Little Boys and Black Americans the most (black people sing so beautifully), and the church one, the monks feel so...

  • Opal 2022-07-04 14:27:45

    On the eve of the victory of World War II, the six stories of the U.S. military's march into Italy, each of which is a short film of its own, reflects all aspects of social life at that time, full of love and regret. Each short film has enough white space, so that there is more room for thinking outside the text. The image is much better than Rome's defense, and the documentary-style shooting method makes the film obtain historical...

  • Luisa 2022-07-04 14:13:47

    Barely pass. The collection of six short films presents various situations after the Allied troops landed in Italy. The time background of the six stories is relatively scattered and the styles are different. One is the death of the Italian girl who helped the American soldier lead the way in Lonely Castle, the second is the friendship between the black American soldier and the shoe-stealing children (these children also played tricks of selling black people), and the third is the American...

Extended Reading
  • Dasia 2022-11-11 02:17:13

    war

    Six stories during World War II. 1. The communication between American soldiers and Italian girls in the absence of language, with a figured out feeling of disgust for war. 2. A black American soldier was drunk by a young boy who stole his clothes and left when the boy saw the boy's living...

  • Ambrose 2022-11-08 03:07:04

    Kracauer's Commentary on "War"

    Roberto Rossellini's Paisan [Italy 1946] surpasses his Open City [Italy 1945] in breadth of vision and significance. Open City was still a drama; Paisan is an epic, comparable only to [The Battleship] Potemkin [USSR 1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein ], though profoundly different from it.

    This new...

Paisan quotes

  • Distressed Woman (episode IV: Firenze): It's the end of the world, my boy. We've sinned so badly.

  • British Soldier 1 (episode IV: Firenze): Why should they stop at Florence? They've destroy half of Europe already.

    British Soldier 2 (episode IV: Firenze): The poor fools. The Jerries always put their foot in it. That's why they're going to lose the war.

Paisan

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Language: Italian,English,German,Sicilian,Latin Release date: March 29, 1948