Bitter Rice, (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949)
I literally stumbled across Giuseppe De Santis's 1949 film Bitter Rice. I was searching for another film in Criterion and this one popped up, and, well, you can imagine that I always wander down all those avenues. It's somewhere between a neo-realist exploration of social issues and a film noir. I didn't realize that even today half of the EU's rice comes from Italy, although I'm assuming the conditions are not as grim as they were in 1949. Recommended.
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