Second viewing; the first one was on October 14, 1991.
A year in the life of a small Italian village in the Emilia-Romagna region, in the 1930s. The movie has a sort of center in 'Tita', a teenage boy. Another important character is 'Gradisca', a forty-ish unmarried woman who is the object of desire of practically the entire male population in that town.
What first struck me in this second viewing was the prodigiously precise mise en scène, and the flawlessness of form in general. Secondly, I was pleased by how sentimentality is never given a free rein. Overall this is a beautiful chronicle, solidly anchored in history but always looking for the poetic side of events.
Rating: 72 (up from 67)
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