1948 · drama · neorealism
Under the Sun of Rome
Directed by Renato Castellani1h 35m1948
A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
Our read: Under the Sun of Rome (1948) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · neorealism entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / neorealism, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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