Films
January, 1961
With General della Rovere, Roberto Rossellini makes an impressive bid for re-admission to the circle of the world's leading film directors. In the spate of neo-realismo that came from Italy after World War II, Rossellini's Open City and Paisan were outstanding. Rossellini made these films with the urgency of a man putting hot hands on your shoulders and forcing you to look at the texture of tortured yet hopeful life. But then came fifteen years of inactivity or of pictures better left unmade. No...
