I understand what it is trying to do and Rossellini absolutely succeeds in his aims. I also appreciate its scope, its beauty, its texture. But it does nothing for me at all. What Rossellini is setting out to do has a lot of merit but it is completely opposite to what I like in my films. It's a history lesson full of didactic and expository dialogue that doesn't even attempt to have any emotional content whatsoever, and whilst that is the intent it is not an intent which gels well with me.

I understand what it is trying to do and Rossellini absolutely succeeds in his aims. I also appreciate its scope, its beauty, its texture. But it does nothing for me at all. What Rossellini is setting out to do has a lot of merit but it is completely opposite to what I like in my films. It's a history lesson full of didactic and expository dialogue that doesn't even attempt to have any emotional content whatsoever, and whilst that is the intent it is not an intent which gels well with me.