The ending is happy, but the general effect of the film is disturbing, so compelling is De Sica's description of a man's solitude.
Umberto D.
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Italy · 1952
1h 31m
Director Vittorio De Sica
Starring Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Elena Rea
Genre Drama
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Umberto D tells the moving story of the lengths a man must go to in order to survive. When Umberto Domenico Terrari finds he is unable to pay his rent, even with his pension, he sets up a plan to fake an illness to keep from living on the street.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The credo of Italy's fabled neorealist movement was that movies rooted in real, unadorned experience carry more dramatic impact than studio concoctions can dream of, and this 1952 masterpiece exemplifies that argument brilliantly.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Universally appealing story that plays as well now as it did on opening day a half-century ago. Maybe better.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is truly a great film, recently celebrated at length in "My Voyage to Italy," Martin Scorsese's documentary about Italian cinema.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Creates magic of a completely different sort. It makes the unlikeliest subject unforgettable, finding drama, beauty, even poetry in simple things and simple lives.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
It's too bad that the film is sporadically crude (a moment of suicidal angst is illustrated with a shove-zoom to the pavement), prone to mega-Italian extroversion, and far too in love with stupid pet tricks.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A film that lets life flood into our souls.
New Times (L.A.) by Robert Wilonsky
De Sica's 1952 neorealist masterpiece; it's a stark snapshot in which all is revealed about the "daily life of mankind," as the director once offered by way of description.
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