Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent instead of paying teachers, hairdressers, or bribes for her illusions.... (Full plot summary below)
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Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent instead of paying teachers, hairdressers, or bribes for her illusions.
Leave your thoughts about Bellissima.
| The SpectatorPenelope HoustonIt lacks the emotional validity needed for the denouement. |
| User ReviewSara CI love all the films with Anna Magnani. She had not a conventional beauty but I think she was the most beautiful actress I've ever seen!But most of all is one of the greatest actresses in the cinema's story. |
| User ReviewDennis TGreat Magnani rocks the world in one of Viscontis absolute master pieces. The screening-room scene is the most beautiful scene in a film about film ever. |
| User ReviewG. VAnna Magnani in one of her best performances ever: intense |
| User ReviewCalliope KThe magnificent Anna Magnani gives one her very best performances in this heartbreaking mother-daughter drama by the great Luchino Visconti |
| User ReviewChucho E. QA brilliant film on the idea of film-making. My favourite scene was the one in the house where the husband confronts her and we see how amazingly badass the acting of Magnani is. I loved the way the entire situation plays into these idea of what you honour most and shows how flawed even the most innocent are, how guilty and damaged and how bad ideas are in everyone of us. |
| User ReviewIana DEternal topic - Mom seeks realization through her child, the illusory dream of stardom. Classic aesthetics. Top-brass acting. Anna Magnani at her best as noisy passionate Italian mother. Whoever can still make it to Flagey in Bxl this summer shouldn't miss out on this wonderful Visconti. |
| User ReviewKenichiro Fgrande film con una splendida e bravissima Anna Magnani... |
| User ReviewAugustine HWith one of the greatest performances ever from Anna Magnani, Bellissima is a neorealist masterpiece that the overshadowing of another films of the movement is terrible, this is a magnificient film with a terrific confrontation to cinema business and what a mother is capable to do for her daughter. An inspiring and breathless film with complex characters and funny dialogues. |
| User ReviewSusan GLuchino Visconti explores the rather repulsive film industry phenomenon of stage mothers. The magnificent Anna Magnani plays the ambitious mother, who pushes her unexceptional young daughter too far. |
