Journey to Italy

Viaggio in Italia

Roberto Rossellini’s landmark exploration of marital crisis is a key precursor to the French New Wave and a work of cinematic poetry.

  • Director

    Roberto Rossellini

  • With

    Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer

  • Italy-France 1954. 85min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

A wealthy couple travels to Naples and, alone with each other for the first time in years, realise how fractured their marriage has become – the weight of past love and ancient cultures weighting heavily on their fragile union. ‘If there is a modern cinema, this is it’ wrote Jacques Rivette about this extraordinary film, which sees Rossellini moving beyond neorealism and towards a new kind of cinema.

Diana Cipriano

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