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A Brief Vacation

Play trailer Poster for A Brief Vacation PG,  1975,  1h 46m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 60% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 85% 100+ Ratings Popcornmeter
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Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping mother-in-law. But when Clara is diagnosed as tubercular, she's sent to a sanatorium in the Alps that proves the greatest vacation of her life. There she meets other patients who treat her with kindness, civility and an intellectual respect that is alien to her. When she falls for a handsome fellow patient (Daniel Quenaud), she wonders if she can ever return.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Oct 6, 2023
It gives one the sense that it is compromising between equally bad ideas. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Oct 23, 2004
4/4
It's a love story, a very brief and poignant one, surrounded by a lot of anger. And it's a "woman's picture" of the new sort, the kind in which women make up their own minds and make their own mistakes. Go to Full Review
LAFP Staff Los Angeles Free Press Dec 4, 2019
Its perfection is a fitting last testament to a brilliant film maker. Go to Full Review
John Simon Esquire Magazine Feb 10, 2019
It would be nice to be able to report that this charming man, gifted actor, and once outstanding film maker regained at the end that cinematic power that had been steadily seeping away from him. Not so, alas. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jun 7, 2010
B
This was De Sica's penultimate film and his last film released in America. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Vittorio De Sica

Director

Florinda Bolkan

Clara Mataro

Renato Salvatori

Franco Mataro

Daniel Quenaud

Luigi

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Movie Info

Synopsis Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping mother-in-law. But when Clara is diagnosed as tubercular, she's sent to a sanatorium in the Alps that proves the greatest vacation of her life. There she meets other patients who treat her with kindness, civility and an intellectual respect that is alien to her. When she falls for a handsome fellow patient (Daniel Quenaud), she wonders if she can ever return.
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Rating
PG
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Italian
Runtime
1h 46m
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