[5] It is ranked 71st in an overall aggregation of several "greatest films" surveys. Moreover, it seems that we can afford more spectacular journeys to Italy than the one introduced here. We can say that Catherine is constantly haunted by her own past and by the past strictly linked to the places she visits...the echo of voices, the coldness of the catacombs, the might and power of the volcanoes, the chaos of the streets of Naples and the excavations at Pompeii. Journey to Italy, also known as Voyage to Italy, is a 1954 drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. I wish the ending were more developed and not so condensed in the climactic idea of the movie...But the camera-work in the finale really escapes from the Hollywood cliché and it does deliberately and successfully so.What does VIAGGIO IN ITALIA offer us? It would be a lovely discovery to say that this film may be liked both by Americans and Europeans....because it is no chronology, no storyline, just a terrific combination of the past that haunts us and educates us, the present that follows us and influences us and the future that is the mother of the two and the mother of none alike. From what I've read, Journey to Italy is regarded so highly due to the role it played in wider cinema history, which makes me feel a little better considering as a standalone film I didn't think it was anything incredible. [8] It was released in 1954 with the title Viaggio in Italia, with a running time of 105 minutes. The actors did not receive their lines until shortly before filming of a particular scene, leaving them little if any chance to prepare or rehearse. Within days of their arrival, the couple's relationship becomes strained amid mutual misunderstandings and a degree of jealousy on both sides. Was this review helpful to you? Stills must not be reproduced, copied or downloaded in any way. The trip is intended as a vacation for Alex, who is a workaholic businessman given to brusqueness and sarcasm. Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. I think if you choose to do a program that only lasts one month and then try to make free time for yourself, where you can sit inside and write a blog, you’re doing it wrong. Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. An American version, with an 80-minute running time, had a limited release in 1955 with the title Strangers. Catherine (Ms Bergman) and Alex (Mr Sanders) experience the crisis of their marriage...although they are a couple, two people who should naturally love each other, they are as if strangers and feel like ones; although they are meant to be similar, they differ considerably. The two begin to spend their days separately, and Alex takes a side trip to the island of Capri. [25] It was reviewed then by Gary Tooze. ." The film had been dubbed into Italian, and now is used as an example of "monstrous" difficulties with dubbing. Yet, the experience with a chick he dates in idyllic Capri opens his eyes a bit and he changes within. It was brutally hot and tough to spend mo… The opening scene shows Katherine and Alex Joyce simply conversing as they drive through the Italian countryside; the only incident is momentary, when they slow for a herd of cattle in the road. A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide. While in Italy, they end up mainly embarking on pursuits separate from each other - Katherine preferring the cultural, Alex preferring "company" including with some acquaintances they didn't know were in Naples until running into them on their first night in the city - and on the few occasions when they do spend time together, there is a tension and an underlying increasing want on both sides to hurt the other emotionally in their individual beliefs of what the other is thinking or has done in their time apart. A film convulsed by themes of sterility, petrification, pregnancy and eternity, it finds its echo in such death-haunted Nouvelle Vague masterpieces as Chabrol's Le Boucher and Truffaut's La Chambre Verte. [11] The receipts and critical reception were poor. Natalie is an Italian woman married to Tony. Tweet. We can still feel similar empathy with the characters that the 1954 viewers felt. He leaves because he has nothing to do...he has nothing to say and the stories about a dreamer, a poet make him both jealous and sarcastic. The film subsequently follows Katherine on several days as she tours Naples without Alex. The first theatrical release was in Italy under the title Viaggio in Italia; the dialo… This page was last edited on 27 January 2021, at 00:57. An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. Italian Journey is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786 to 1788 that was published in 1816 & 1817. This 1954 movie from the famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini explores what is now a clichéd storyline in American romantic comedies: An emotionally cold married couple travels overseas (here to Italy) on business and miraculously rekindles their relationship in an exotic adventure. An old film with an ever 'modern' content.The first shot of the film is the very first impression that highlights their way(s) which appear(s) to lead us to a certain moment...the final shot of the film is the last conclusion that focuses on people walking the paths of history with their own desires, with their own decisions. Although the film was an Italian production, its dialogue was in English. What a shot! Film details. Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. The River. Journey to Italy (1954) Plot. Burton is an Englishman living in Italy and married to Natalie. Therefore, the theme that is being developed in VIAGGIO IN ITALIA is so down to earth. [10], The film was completed in 1953, but it took 18 months to arrange for distribution of the film in Italy. Journey to Italy is thus one wellspring of the French New Wave. The language barrier has tragic consequences in a series of unrelated stories set during the Italian Campaign of WWII. For the Alice album, see, Giuseppe Forelli discovered that one could make plaster castings of the cavities left by the bodies of victims; the castings preserve the form of the body and its bones. In the autumn of 1505, Dürer made a second journey to Italy, where he remained until the winter of 1507. On the third day of her visit, she tours the large, ancient statues at the Naples Museum. Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on... Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles. Difference and Repetition: The Filmmaking of Marguerite Duras, Italian Titles in the Cannes Market Pipeline Span Wide Range of Genres, Oscar-Winning Director Gabriele Salvatores Talks ‘Voyage in Italy’ Life in Lockdown Doc (Exclusive), 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Lesser-known Treasures, 35 Films from the Golden Age of Italian Cinema. Movies Like Journey to Italy. Loosely based on Colette’s Duo (a faithful adaptation had to be scrapped because of rights’ issues), Journey to Italy is a character-based melodrama in which little happens. And there is one little step towards making this film an anti-marriage conclusion. Leslie Daniels as Tony Burton (billed as Anthony La Penna). A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. All air passengers coming to the United States, including U.S. citizens, are required to have a negative COVID-19 test result or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 before they board a flight to the United States. On the last day of the film, they impetuously agree to divorce. Synopsis This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them. It is memorably executed in the overwhelming scene when she visits the museum of Naples. Critic Geoff Andrew referred to it as "a key stepping stone on the path to modern cinema" in its shift away from neorealism,[19] and A.O. Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. There is way too much to see and learn for that. Journey to Italy (28) IMDb 7.4 1h 25min 1954 7+ Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. Huggo. [26] A VHS tape version was released in 1992. I think that this conclusion of hers which she shares with Alex is, as if, the quintessential message of the film. Natalia Ray as Natalie Burton (credited as Natalia Rai). You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [7] Katherine is profoundly disturbed, and she and Alex leave Pompeii only to be caught up in the procession for Saint Gennaro in Naples. [23] This version is based on restoration work at Cineteca di Bologna and Cinecittà Luce [it], which was reviewed very favorably by Glenn Erickson. In 2013, the Criterion Collection released a newly restored version as a region 1 DVD. [1] Rossellini and his co-author, Vitaliano Brancati, also apparently drew on a script entitled New Vine, by Antonio Pietrangeli, which described the argumentative relationship of an English couple touring Naples in a Jaguar automobile. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense. Alex and Katherine Joyce (Sanders and Bergman) are a couple from England who have traveled by car to Italy to sell a villa near Naples that they have recently inherited from "Uncle Homer". The miraculous Sorrento Coast has been photographed and filmed in many far more impressive technologies. [16], Journey to Italy performed badly at the box office and was largely a critical failure. At the Cahiers Du Cinéma, Francois Truffaut, a great representative of the New Wave in France, proclaimed Roberto Rossellini's production "the first modern film." Journey to Italy (1953) May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 KWadsworth Earlier today someone asked a group blog I belong to for recommendations; they’d had to cancel a planned trip to Italy, and were looking for a way to have a “staycation” that incorporated Italian things – food, music, films. Good sense of humor with a bit of sentimentality, lovely views of Italian miracles, great performances of two celebrities among simple people, and the combination of the past and the present. He is strict and hilarious, particularly at the moment he searches for a glass of mineral water.... Work and duty that mean so much for him not necessarily mean much to Catherine...yet, does it mean that they have to be apart? Journey to Italy book. We get to see the couple in media res on their road (mind you the deliberate image of the road at the beginning) and gradually get to know them authentically through what they say and through what they do. Original title: Viaggio in Italia. Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. Starring Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY (VIAGGIO IN ITALIA) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. Journey to Italy Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. The Joyces’ is a journey in Italy as well as to it, the original journey to Italy having been made by the late Uncle Homer, who settled there, stayed during a war that is otherwise scarcely mentioned, and is still fondly missed by his Neapolitan friends, friends who are unlikely to miss the Joyces, his heirs, in anything like the same way. See, "Pompeii: Its Discovery and Preservation", "The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of "The Dead, "Index to Motion Picture Credits - 'Strangers, "Journey To Italy: the Italian film that kickstarted the French New Wave", "Revisiting a Rossellini Classic to Find Resonances of Today", "3 Films By Roberto Rossellini starring Ingrid Bergman - Savant Blu-ray Review", "You Must Change Your Life: The Films of Roberto Rossellini & Ingrid Bergman", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Journey_to_Italy&oldid=1003001888, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. When I found out that I was chosen along with a group of other Bloggers, Writers, Editors and Influencers to travel to Italy, I was stoked! Certificate: Tous Public We see Ingrid, a great beauty, walking among the grandiose sculptures, among the men of 2,000 years ago, people of the past who appear to be so much like the people of today. Yet, Rossellini chooses something more demanding by listening to Italy's stones of history which seem to speak to us now. While in Italy, they end up mainly embarking on pursuits separate from each other - Katherine preferring the cultural, Alex preferring "company" including with some acquaintances they didn't know were in Naples until running into them on their first night in the city - and on the few occasions when they do spend time together, there is a tension and an underlying increasing want on both sides to hurt the other emotionally in their individual beliefs of what the other is thinking or has done in their time apart. Alex dismisses Lewington as "a fool". A few weeks prior I started preparing for my International Travel. He is a hypocrite-like master who has never seen 'noise and boredom go so well together.' On the sixth day she visits the Phlegraean Fields with their volcanic curiosities. [8] The film's storyline about Charles Lewington, the deceased poet who'd been in love with Katherine Joyce, is considered to be an allusion to the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce. His dominant role of a man is excellently directed towards the background and his egocentric desires are well crafted and manipulated both in the performance and the direction. [8] The afternoon's experiences — seemingly miraculously — rekindle their love for each other. Other articles where Journey to Italy is discussed: Ingrid Bergman: Scandal and later films: …and Viaggio in Italia (1954; Journey to Italy). We flew into and out of Rome and knew spending some time there was pretty much mandatory on your first trip to the country. Discover something for everyone this month with some choice picks for the best movies and TV to stream in April. She dreams of a good life, an independent life, easy going life (the maxim 'how sweet it is to do nothing' makes some sense, at least an amusing sense for her); yet, the moments she sees mothers with babies in the streets fill her with unique nostalgia.Alex is different....he does not find Italy very charming because of his practical, cold, unemotional view on life. 24 of 28 people found this review helpful. STROMBOLI LA TERRA DI DIO), she is exceptional here. Journey To Italy is thus one wellspring of the French New Wave. Reconsider travel to Italy due to COVID-19.Exercise increased caution due to terrorism. Journey to Italy is considered by many to be Rossellini's masterpiece,[2][3][4] as well as a seminal work of modernist cinema due to its loose storytelling. sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. 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