Film screening
Viaggio in Italia
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse 5, 4051 Basel
"Scenes from a Marriage: On a trip to Italy, long-simmering tensions between Katherine (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband Axel Joyce (George Sanders) erupt.
Veranstaltungsdetails
"Scenes from a Marriage: On a trip to Italy, the long-simmering tensions between Katherine (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband Axel Joyce (George Sanders) erupt. The British couple wants to inspect an inherited luxury villa in Naples and sell it as quickly as possible. But the impressions of the unfamiliar country make their mutual estrangement emerge more and more mercilessly. The crisis culminates in a visit to Pompeii. While divorce is already on the cards, however, the two also realize what they have in each other."
Pamela Jahn, Filmpodium
"Rossellini tries to show the couple's change of emotion under the influence of a way of life that is foreign to them. Mostly we see through the eyes of the woman as she gradually becomes aware of the loneliness and emptiness of her life, while she is fascinated by the beauty of the people, the presence of life, the cult of death and the ongoing witnessing of religious sentiments around her. (...) The director develops the technique of his earlier films. There is hardly any plot; instead, seemingly incoherent, loud little details pile up, which the camera captures, just as a writer takes notes day after day."
A. T., Monthly Film Bulletin, March 1958
"WithViaggio in Itali, Rossellini succeeded, in the eyes of many critics, in making the first modern film. (...) The story and the topography of the chosen settings make the film virtually run off its plot track and lead to the fractures from which a new cinema emerges."
Laura Mulvey, Sight & Sound, Dec. 2000
Contributors and additional information:
Italy/France 1954
85 min. bw. 35 mm. E/d
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Screenplay: Vitaliano Brancati, Roberto Rossellini
Cinematography: Enzo Serafin
Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti
Music: Renzo Rossellini
With: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Pamela Jahn, Filmpodium
"Rossellini tries to show the couple's change of emotion under the influence of a way of life that is foreign to them. Mostly we see through the eyes of the woman as she gradually becomes aware of the loneliness and emptiness of her life, while she is fascinated by the beauty of the people, the presence of life, the cult of death and the ongoing witnessing of religious sentiments around her. (...) The director develops the technique of his earlier films. There is hardly any plot; instead, seemingly incoherent, loud little details pile up, which the camera captures, just as a writer takes notes day after day."
A. T., Monthly Film Bulletin, March 1958
"WithViaggio in Itali, Rossellini succeeded, in the eyes of many critics, in making the first modern film. (...) The story and the topography of the chosen settings make the film virtually run off its plot track and lead to the fractures from which a new cinema emerges."
Laura Mulvey, Sight & Sound, Dec. 2000
Contributors and additional information:
Italy/France 1954
85 min. bw. 35 mm. E/d
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Screenplay: Vitaliano Brancati, Roberto Rossellini
Cinematography: Enzo Serafin
Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti
Music: Renzo Rossellini
With: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.