Journey to Italy (1954)
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.
- Roberto Rossellini
- Mary Alcaide
- Marcello Caracciolo Di Laurino
- Vladimiro Cecchi
- Roberto Rossellini
- Vitaliano Brancati
- Vitaliano Brancati
- Roberto Rossellini
- Colette
Rating: 7.3/10 by 293 users
Alternative Title:
Voyage in Italy - US
Reise in Italien - DE
Viagem Pela Itália - BR
Viagem à Itália - BR
Journey in Italy - US
Te querré siempre - ES
이탈리아 여행 - KR
L'amour est le plus fort - FR
Country:
Italy
France
Language:
English
Italiano
Runtime: 01 hour 25 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: prostitute, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, italy, naples, italy, travel, relationship, divorce, pompeii
On the face of it, this ought to have been a much better film. Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders and Naples - all under the expert supervision of Roberto Rossellini. Unfortunately, what we end up with is a beautifully crafted, but overly melodramatic story of a couple who find their marriage is over. When they drive to Naples to sell a villa Sanders has inherited, they discover during their journey - and once they arrive, that they just don't know each other any more. Whatever they did have in common at the start of their eight year marriage has long since departed leaving them with only a shell of a relationship and a veneer of affection with both really yearning for freedom, not just from each other, but from their tried and tested existence. I found Bergman to be quite sterile, her performance aloof and distant - but not in a characterful way; more high-maintenance ice maiden-ish. Sanders is what he always is: he has panache and style but again, his heart just didn't seem to be in it - on any level. Some magnificent cinematography of the Neopolitan countryside, and some interesting scenes filmed in/around Pompeii give the film a little bit more, but ultimately I found it all just a little empty....
