Films: Bellissima; The Peddler and the Lady

Retrospective: Anna Magnani

(The Most Beautiful, Luchino Visconti, 1951)
(Campo de’ fiori, Mario Bonnard, 1943)

One of the most beloved Italian films, Bellissima stars Magnani as a working-class mother who will sacrifice anything—including the family’s meager finances—to turn her young daughter into a movie star. (108 mins., 35mm) In the delightful comedy The Peddler and the Lady, Magnani plays a green grocer in the famed Roman market Campo de’ Fiori (the film’s original title) who vies for the attention of the nearby fishmonger, played by Aldo Fabrizi. (95 mins., 35mm)

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