Extended Reading
  • Judy 2022-01-12 08:01:12

    History in the back mirror

    With the same expression of realism, the master Desika's film has more power.
    Although there are not too many tricks in performance, but in the process of watching, it can keep your heart tight.
    This is the difference. Perhaps sincerity will always be respected, combined with the reality of...

  • Icie 2022-01-12 08:01:12

    The unruly face of the old man in "Wind Candle Tears"


          In 2009, there was a film "Man and Dog" in France, which was a remake of the Italian film "Wind Candle Tears". "The Tears of the Wind" filmed in 52 years is the work of De Sica. This great director who has filmed "The Bike Stealer", "The End", "Italian Wedding" and so on, occupies the history...

  • Seamus 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    I didn't expect that I was crying so much. This feeling of being unable to die and not being able to live was too heart-wrenching and tormenting. Dogs are so cute.

  • Angelo 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    De Sica's fatal blow always appears at the very moment when it's about to end, all the pain erupts at this point, and then everyone burst into tears both inside and outside the scene. The screenplay is basically the same as "The Bicycle Stealer". In an indifferent society full of class hatred, the only thing worth showing is the miserable low-class life, and the only thing worth moving is the warmth of life and death.

Umberto D. quotes

  • Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Listen, you need to leave as well. There are lots of jobs in Rome. Don't stay here.

    Maria, la servetta: She'll kick me out the minute she finds out I'm pregnant.

    Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Can't you go back to your hometown?

    Maria, la servetta: My father would beat me.

  • Maria, la servetta: Will we meet again, Mr. Umberto?