Roberto Rossellini, Living Without a Script

2026 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Roberto Rossellini, one of 20th-century Italian cinema’s undisputed masters. But as this rich new documentary shows us, Rossellini found himself at a particularly challenging point in his career 70 years earlier, in 1956, reeling from the mixed response to his legendary films with wife Ingrid Bergman as their marriage appears to be at the point of collapse. An invitation from the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to shoot a documentary about modern India marks a reinvention for Rossellini and an exciting new development in his iconic artistry. Using a wealth of archival footage, this deeply pleasurable documentary paints a dazzling portrait of Rossellini across the years leading up to his death in 1977, and is an ecstatic, cinephilic tribute to one of world cinema’s true titans. Winner of the David di Donatello Award for Best Documentary.