“An urge to tell the truth stirred in us. Unaware, we were creating neo-realism.” So beams the garrulous, charismatic, ever-so-slightly-pompous Vittorio De Sica, director of three of the five films in this box set. Dressed in a dapper two-piece suit, inhaling thoughtfully on a slim cigarette, he’s the subject of the hour-long Timeless Cinema documentary. Factor in the equally excellent Children Of Rome doc and you have the scoop on Italian neo-realism, the post-World War Two movement that rejected papier-mâché sets, middle-class thesps and neat plots in favour of locations, non-actors and urgent messages.
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