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Two Women is a very poignant, heartbreaking, daring, and brilliant film. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Rich S Sophia Loren "was created differently ...
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In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war. Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery-store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where she ...
Critics reviews. Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the Second World War. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta.
Jul 25, 2023 · “Two Women” was based on Alberto Moravia’s 1957 novel “La ciociara”, which was inspired by his personal experiences during WWII.The book’s title, “La ciociara”, became the film’s title in Italy, which loosely translates to “The Woman from Ciociaria” (Ciociaria was a term for a rural, mountainous province in central Italy).
In director Vittorio De Sica's acclaimed drama Two Women (1960), set in 1943 Rome, the city is a continual target of Allied bombs. With a fragile, sheltered 13-year-old daughter Rosetta (Eleonora Brown) to protect, widow Cesira (Sophia Loren) decides to leave her small grocery store and return to the relative safety of her native village Ciociara, in the Italian countryside.
As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror! Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to ...
Feb 17, 2020 · Vittorio De Sica’s wartime drama La ciociara (Two Women, 1960) had a decidedly peculiar genesis.Adapted from a 1957 novel by Alberto Moravia, with a script by De Sica’s long-time collaborator Cesare Zavattini, the film was based on real-life events that took place in Italy in 1943 – later dubbed the Marocchinate – in which Moroccan troops of the French Expeditionary Corps embarked on a ...
