Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to...( read more
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Troisième film de Vittorio De Sica pour moi, troisième coup de poing au visage. Encore une fois, fort de l'esthétique néo-réaliste de laquelle il est passé maître, De Sica tourne son film dans les rues ravagées de Rome, avec des acteurs non-professionnels pour être sûr d'atteindr...( read more)
Directed by the famous Vittorio De Sica, and with Cesare Zavattini doing his trademark poetic screenplay, Shoeshine definitely deserves its place as one of the first foreign films to with the Oscar of the same name.
want to see this because it honored as the best foreign film at the oscars and was nominated for best picture by NBR
The only movie I can genuinely say made me cry. The ending is deliberately harrowing but it's hard not to be emotionally involved by that stage.
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