Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1962).
Anna Magnani erupts in the very first scene and, however subdued thereafter, her Vesuvian presence insures that Pasolini’s second feature—a studied attempt to fuse neo-realism with Fra Angelico—will not lack for energy.
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