Two Women

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Jul 17, 2018 Sophia Loren's towering performance as she plays a young widow trying to survive and protect her young daughter from the insanity of war in 1943 Italy. See more

Theodore Feb 1, 2018 ***EARTHY GODDESS, SOPHIA LOREN, DESERVED BEST ACTRESS OSCAR FOR GUTSY ROLE***

Poe G Jan 28, 2018 Mother and daughter become two women and slowly become mother and daughter again.

Kylo R Nov 24, 2017 Sometimes felt overdramatic. A lot of screaming. Still, a great work.

Luke S Nov 19, 2017 Loren is stellar in this heart-wrenching film. No doubts as to why she won the Oscar for this film.

Anakin W Mar 11, 2017 A gripping, weighty film, with an Italian women (Sophia Loren) and her 12-year-old daughter (Eleonora Brown) fleeing Rome towards the end of WWII. Director Vittorio De Sica is incredibly balanced in what was a highly charged subject: he shows Italians who had supported the fascists and Italians who were wealthy while the peasants around them starved, but most of all, he shows Italians simply trying to survive the end of the war. We see soldiers from England, Germany, America, Russia, and Morocco at various points in the film, with the woman and her child holed up with extended family in the hills, and then later trying to make their way back to Rome. It's fascinating to see this part of the war from the Italian perspective. What happens to the mother and her child in a bombed out church (perhaps a symbolic setting) is horrifying, but while the film has these dark elements, and people living under conditions of privation at a time when those around them were being killed randomly, it doesn't crush you with its darkness. I think that comes from the incredible strength in Loren's performance, which is wonderful. She is worthy of having won an Oscar for her performance, even with other nominees that year including Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Jean-Paul Belmondo is also excellent as an intellectual professor who seems to see the greater truth in the events that had befallen Italy, and who is often at odds with the peasants around him. De Sica is undoubtedly speaking directly to viewers when he has this character say that an alternate strategy on the part of the Allies would have led to fewer civilian deaths in the cities. He's not making excuses for his country, he's simply showing the very real tragedy of war. He does this throughout the movie with all the right touches, and shows the human spirit enduring despite it all. Great film. See more

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