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Subgenre Sampler

 
SusanaSusana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951)
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana
A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways. Early Bunuel…
Diary of a Country PriestDiary of a Country Priest (Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne) (1950) Aro Favourite
Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Claude Laydu
Compelling and uncompromising – this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' classic French novel is one of dir. Bresson's best examinations of the…
Francesco giullare di DioFrancesco giullare di Dio (Francis, God's Jester; The Flowers of St Francis) (1950) Recommended
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Aldo Fabrizi
Following after dir. Rossellini's more obviously left–wing films (ROME OPEN CITY, PAISA), this unusual biopic would prove a transition work to…
La RondeLa Ronde (1950) Recommended
Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
A witty chronicle of circular love–affairs and seductions in 19th century Vienna. Lavish sets and extravagent spiralling camerawork complement…
Miracle in MilanMiracle in Milan (1950) Aro Favourite
Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Paolo Stoppa
Memorable foray into satirical fantasy for dir. de Sica, in which a hobo philanthropist is given the power to work miracles in the…
ScandalScandal (Shubun) (1950)
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura
This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
StromboliStromboli (1950) Recommended
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman
After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
Summer InterludeSummer Interlude (1950)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Un Chant D'amourUn Chant D'amour (A Song of Love) (1950) Recommended
Dir. Jean Genet
Sole foray into cinema for French convict–turned–playwright Jean Genet is a brief and intense visual poem about the fantasies of…
OrpheusOrpheus (Orphee) (1949) Recommended
Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea
Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…

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