1944 · drama · family
The Children Are Watching Us
Directed by Vittorio De Sica1h 24m1944
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Our read: The Children Are Watching Us (1944) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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