"Visit Italy" Notes

Micaela 2022-04-09 08:01:02

2022.01 |Second brush after one year, amazing, changed from three stars to five stars hhh The incompatibility of emotional idealists and rational realists. However, when two romantic ideals are put together, they can only be Bai Yueguang who talks and writes poetry. The poet who came to her door in the rain was also a lunatic, but the soul she admired, just like the sculptures in the museum and the ancient city of Pompeii. The so-called art is the rampant emotion. There is also the metaphor that everyone has experienced a shipwreck, whether it is passive occlusion or active laziness, how can you tell, but everyone falls into this way of life by coincidence.

2021.01 |The Pompeii ruins and the sculptures in the museum are photographed here. If there is no inspiration, I don’t believe that the statue of Alain Resnais will die. This poetic description, exquisite picture, grand music, solemn atmosphere... The heroine recalls The past between her and the poet must have fallen in love with each other. I can understand that she went to some places to reminisce, but the content of the recollection is all along the footsteps of the poem, not the traces of the two people's relationship, which seems a bit false. It should be said that only when you are chasing stars will you follow the footsteps of the work. After all, the work is packaging and externalization, and there should be stories like coming out of you in heavy rain between close people. And, although it is said that the breakup between lovers is a small fight, the two protagonists' emotional scenes, divorce and reconciliation are too sudden. And, this film should be the originator of countless city roaming films that follow. The heroine travels all over Italy, touching the scene. Rossellini is starting to move away from pure neorealist transformation...

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  • Emie 2022-04-19 09:03:16

    Reminds me of a week in Naples with Haotian in the early summer of this year. The city seems to have not changed in a hundred years, the streets, the Madonna, the ruins, the museums, the catacombs, Capri and Pompeii, everything in the image is roughly the same as what I see. Religious and shabby are my first impressions of Naples, but this film exudes charm and style. Bergman once again said in this film that she was leaving. She escaped from the volcano (again), the city, the marriage, the emotions, and the heart that she could not admit. During my week in Naples, I was also so overwhelmed with feelings of idleness that I couldn't seem to understand why the city is so famous. But now I suddenly feel that maybe Napoli is charming in her own right, maybe it's just Rossellini who found her charming.

  • Cathryn 2022-04-09 08:01:02

    【March 31, 2019 - China Film Archive - "The Herald of the New Wave - Special Screening of Italian Film Master Roberto Rossellini" - Bologna Film Archive 2K Restoration Edition] Travel-style weak plot light drama .

Journey to Italy quotes

  • Count of Melissa: Your compliment hides the usual veiled criticism, the "dolce far niente."

    Katherine Joyce: No, not at all.

    Count of Melissa: How do you say "dolce far niente" in English?

    Count of Trebisonda: I think they use the Italian phrase, but I think you could translate it as "how sweet to do nothing."

  • Countess of Melissa: They say all Neapolitans are indolent. But you tell me, can you call a castaway indolent? In a way, we're all castaways. We have to fight so hard just to stay afloat.

    Katherine Joyce: I would say it's a very pleasurable shipwreck.

    Duke of Lipoli: Especially when I look into your eyes, stars in the night.

    Katherine Joyce: Ha-ha-ha...