1954 · comedy · drama · anthology
The Gold of Naples
Directed by Vittorio De Sica2h 11m1954
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Our read: The Gold of Naples (1954) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · anthology entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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