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The Children Are Watching Us
The Children Are Watching Us

7.6

The Children Are Watching Us

NR·1943·84m

Summary

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Vittorio De Sica

Novel, Screenplay

Cesare Giulio Viola

Screenplay

Cesare Zavattini

Screenplay

Adolfo Franci

Screenplay

Margherita Maglione

Screenplay

Gherardo Gherardi

Reviews

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TsarMatt

January 14, 2014

In typical De Sica fashion, it ends on a rather cynical note (and it has this dismal undercurrent throughout), but its bleak and honest message is unfortunately obscured and smothered by the rather schmaltzy acting and uneven script. De Sica is widely recognized as of the leading filmmakers that broke through 'filmic norms', so to speak, by hiring non-professional actors as a way to convey a level of authenticity and realness that are often indistinct in most other films. Especially those that deal with the ideas of economic hardship, a collapse in social order, and the dilapidation of post-WWII Europe. It worked impeccably in "Bicycle Thieves" and "Umberto. D", two of De Sica's most prominent work, but ultimately failed here.

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

Italian

Budget:

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Keywords

innocence