Paisan (Paisà) Reviews
February 13, 2011
One of Rossellini's neo-realistic films, Paisan received an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, co-penned by the young Fellini and others, and centering on the interaction between the Allied Forces and Italian people at the end of WWII.
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| Original Score: A-
July 16, 2010
Chillingly blunt, doggedly unsentimental, emotionally overwhelming
February 5, 2010
effectively maintains the rough-hewn, in-the-streets feel of neorealism, and in its best moments it feels like something captured, rather than something produced
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
January 17, 2010
Love, friendship and camaraderie take root but dont blossom, though hope remains that conditions will be more fertile in just a few months.
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| Original Score: 9/10
January 24, 2008
Has a passion, unlike a newsreel, that resonates and its authenticity as an important document of history cannot be denied.
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| Original Score: B
August 20, 2005
Visually creative, emotionally involving look at the turbulent transition to liberated Italy in 1945.
July 23, 2005
Original Score: 5/5
August 22, 2003
Original Score: 4/5
August 16, 2001
this remarkable film communicates how the war in Italy actually took place on a very personal level
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| Original Score: B+
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 5/5