Down with Misery
La Magnani
May 18 - June 1, 2016
Released the same year as Magnani’s international breakthrough Rome Open City, this charming neorealist fairy tale—with Magnani as the wife of a truck driver who unwittingly gets mixed up in black-market smuggling—is a bittersweet look at downtrodden people striving for a better tomorrow.
Released the same year as Magnani’s international breakthrough, Rome Open City, this tenderhearted comedy charts the mayhem that ensues when an honest truck driver (Nino Besozzi) unwittingly gets mixed up in black-market smuggling and winds up adopting a streetwise orphan—much to the chagrin of his no-nonsense wife (Magnani). Something like a neorealist fairy tale, Down with Misery roots its charming wisp of a story in the none-too-rosy economic reality of postwar Italy to create a bittersweet look at downtrodden people striving for a better tomorrow. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
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