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A Brief Vacation

1973
Romance
Drama
1h 52m
A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children. Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end... (imdb)
Directed by:
Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica
Written by:
Cesare Zavattini Cesare Zavattini Rodolfo Sonego Rodolfo Sonego
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Starring:
Renato Salvatori Renato Salvatori Florinda Bolkan Florinda Bolkan Teresa Gimpera Teresa Gimpera Hugo Blanco Daniel Quenaud José María Prada José María Prada
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Genres:
Romance, Drama
AKA:
Breve vacanza, Una
Country:
Spain
Language:
Italian
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A Brief Vacation

1973
Romance
Drama
1h 52m
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yiannosYiannos
Rated 17 Sep 2017
73
78th
(Viewed on 22/04/11): A.B.V isn't top shelf De Sica, but it's a highly respectable, partial throwback to his neorealist roots, this time centering on a working class woman who is financially and emotionally impoverished. Bolkan is superb in the lead, and we feel her desperation and longing for a more fulfilling life that will forever elude her. There are a few false notes, mostly in the form of caricatures she meets at the sanatorium, but it's arguably the best film he made after 1960.
Rated 17 Sep 2017
martintellerMartinTeller
Rated 04 Nov 2008
77
60th
Part neo-neo-realism, part melodrama, this impressed me more than a lot of De Sica's other stuff, but didn't totally win me over. He gives the protagonist the perfect guy to fall in love with, in contrast to her horribly boorish husband. How can we possibly feel conflicted about Carla's adulterous longings when the deck is so clearly stacked? However, the social/class issues are much more nuanced, and watching Carla interact with the upper crust provide the film's most rewarding moments.
Rated 04 Nov 2008
moribunnyMoribunny
Rated 13 Sep 2015
60
54th
Not an uninteresting plot, but the characters all lack the flair and level of detail to really provide for the tensions that the makers seem to be going for. Zavattini, Sonego and De Sica had all done better than this.
Rated 13 Sep 2015

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