Bitter rice

Bitter rice

DVD - 2016

During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.

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Subjects
Criminals > Drama.
Rice farming > Drama.
Agricultural laborers > Drama.
Crime films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Crime films
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2016]
Language
Italian
English
Corporate Author
Lux film (Firm)
Corporate Author
Lux film (Firm) (production company)
Other Authors
Giuseppe De Santis, 1917-1997 (film director), Dino De Laurentiis (film producer), Corrado Alvaro, 1895-1956 (screenwriter), Carlo Lizzani (actor), Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, 1902-1994, Gianni Puccini, 1914-1968, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, 1921-2004, Silvana Mangano, 1930-1989, Raf Vallone
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
Item Description
Title from container.
Fullscreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
Special features: Giuseppe de Santas, a 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani ; interview with Lizzani from 2003 ; trailer ; essay by critic Pasquale Iannone.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editor, Gabriele Varriale ; music, Goffredo Petrassi.
ISBN
9781681430928
9781551430928
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Tragedy turns out to be the fruit of greed in the best-known film of Giuseppe De Santis (Under the Olive Tree), whose earthy saga of female migrants working in the fertile rice fields of the Po Valley is a hybrid of neorealism and Tinseltown melodrama. Sensual Silvana Mangano steams up the screen as the sultry peasant woman charmed by an oily thief (Vittorio Gassman) dangling a stolen diamond necklace after he dumps his previous partner in crime (Doris Dowling). Worker exploitation provides the social backdrop for a gripping tale of lust and betrayal. [See Trailers, LJ 12/15.] © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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