After Vittorio De Sica's Two Women was released and favorably reviewed in 1960, two things became clear. First, Italy still had a stomach for revisiting the horrors of World War II that ended brutally less than 20 years earlier. To its credit, Italy had been wrestling with its fascist role and outcome since 1945, when Roberto Rossellini's Open City appe…
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