1. Miracle in Milan (1951) - Movie Review - Alternate Ending
Sep 13, 2016 · It is a film dedicated to the principle that no matter how miserable life might become, it is still possible to be truly and completely happy.
Miracle in Milan - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton
2. The Flipside of Neorealism: Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, 1951)
Feb 10, 2020 · Miracle in Milan is a sheep in wolf's clothing. The story begins at the beginning, with a new baby miraculously born in a cabbage patch.
3. Miracle in Milan - Rotten Tomatoes
This beautiful presentation of Vittorio De Sicas fantastical portrait of poverty and human fortitude helps make the argument that the film is more than just a ...
When Lolotta (Emma Gramatica) finds a baby in her cabbage patch, she raises him as her own. Years later, Lolotta dies, and young Toto (Francesco Golisano) quickly bounces from the orphanage to the street. A holy fool of sorts, he falls in with a ragtag group of homeless people whose junkyard he helps organize into a more livable, ordered environment. Everything's rosy until oil is discovered underneath the yard, and a ruthless capitalist attempts to drive the group away.
4. Miracle in Milan & the Meaning of Realism - Sunset Boulevard
Nov 11, 2013 · With Miracle in Milan, it is true that we do not see a material reality. Instead, de Sica gives us something altogether more precious: a reality ...
In 1951, Mr Vittoria de Sica rolled out one of the most wonderfully weird movies I have ever seen (and after having seen it, I am sure you too will agree completely). The critics of the day however…
5. Miracle in Milan - The New Yorker
Fantasy casts a lurid light on unbearable realities in this political comedy by Vittorio De Sica, from 1951.
Fantasy casts a lurid light on unbearable realities in this political comedy by Vittorio De Sica, from 1951. Italy’s crises of employment and housing are the subjects of its sentimental story, which is also a wildly imaginative tale brought to life with astonishing special effects and slapstick stunts. Its Chaplinesque star, Francesco Golisano—a nonprofessional actor and a superbly subtle physical comedian—plays Totò, a penniless orphan in a shantytown on the outskirts of Milan. When a predatory landlord summons his private army to displace its residents, Totò miraculously obtains the power of wish fulfillment, which he first deploys in an effort to help them—but his desperate neighbors quickly abuse this power, with chaotic results. This satire on the cravings of rich and poor alike is also a cry of despair; De Sica’s celestial visions suggest that nothing short of a miracle will save those in need. In Italian.(Streaming on Amazon.)
6. Neorealism Meets Fairy Tale in De Sica's 'Miracle in Milan' - PopMatters
Apr 27, 2022 · Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) puzzled some viewers in 1951 for reasons we'll reveal. It's safe to say more viewers ...
If the escapism in Vittorio De Sica's 'Miracle in Milan'seems simple-minded, even simpler is the cure to society's ills.
7. Director Vittorio De Sica's fantastical dramedy “Miracle in Milan (Miracolo ...
Apr 18, 2022 · De Sica's Miracle in Milan is an adaptation of Cesare Zavattini's novel (adapted by Zavattini himself for the film) which explores the ...
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8. 'Miracle in Milan' review by Mark Cunliffe - Letterboxd
Miracle in Milan 1951.. Watched May 31, 2021. Mark Cunliffe 's ... "good morning really means good morning." Miracle in Milan is a delightful film, ...
It's very hard to mix social realism with fantasy or whimsy, but it doesn't stop filmmakers from trying. Earlier this year, I found my first 'miss' from my beloved Amber Films in the shape of Dream On, a 1991 film that pitches heavy social issues with a literal fairy godmother character. Arguably one of the first to mix such oil with water and hope for success was, somewhat inevitably, the neo-realist Italian cinema. In 1951, one of its chief protagonists, Vittoria De Sica, released his fable Miracle in Milan. The film concerns the travails of Francesco Golisano's kind hearted Toto.
9. Miracle in Milan - Screen Slate
Dec 11, 2021 · Vittorio de Sica followed The Bicycle Thief (1948), his international breakthrough, with Miracle in Milan (1951), a joyful fairytale set in a ...
Vittorio de Sica followed The Bicycle Thief (1948), his international breakthrough, with Miracle in Milan (1951), a joyful fairytale set in a shantytown on the outskirts of the developing, post-war Italian city.
10. 'Miracle in Milan' Blu-ray Review: The Criterion Collection - Slant Magazine
Apr 16, 2022 · The beautiful transfer helps make the argument that the film is more than just a curio in neorealist history.
'Miracle in Milan' receives a beautiful transfer that helps make the argument that the film is more than just a curio in neorealist history.
11. Miracle in Milan Reviews - Metacritic
This beautiful presentation of Vittorio De Sica's fantastical portrait of poverty and human fortitude helps make the argument that the film is more than just a ...
An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
12. Miracle in Milan | Classic Film Review - Video Librarian
Jul 18, 2022 · Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan (1951)—based on the novel Totò il buono by longtime De Sica collaborator Cesare ...
Serving up a wonderful (despite being seemingly contradictory) mix of neorealism and magical realism, this social critique fantasy is highly recommended for classic film collections public libraries, and film studies students.
13. Miracle in Milan | Wexner Center for the Arts
(Miracolo a Milano, Vittorio De Sica, 1951). New Restoration. Info ... Despite the film's fantasy elements, Miracle in Milan is considered one of the great ...
Miracle in Milan follows Totò (Francesco Golisano), a grown orphan who now lives among the poor in a Milan shantytown. When oil is discovered on...
14. Miracle in Milan (1951) critic reviews on MUBI
De Sica let his imagination run wild in the 1951 political comedy "Miracle in Milan," a fantasy that's filled with astonishing special effects and slapstick ...
Critic reviews for the film: 'Miracle in Milan (1951)'
15. MIRACLE IN MILAN - The Beacon
(1952), Vitorrio De Sica mustered a wild storm of whimsy: MIRACLE IN MILAN. Managing to achieve the same level of class-consciousness with a nudge and a wink, ...
Between releasing his two Neorealist classics BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) and UMBERTO D. (1952), Vitorrio De Sica mustered a wild storm of whimsy: MIRACLE IN MILAN. Managing to achieve the same level of class-consciousness with a nudge and a wink, this lesser known Italian fable lends De Sica's oeuvre a flare that shouldn’t be overlooked.
16. Miracolo a Milano - Variety
Miracle in Milan, an involved and rambling screenplay, originally written by Cesare Zavattini in 1940 and later published as a novel entitled Toto the Good, ...
Miracle in Milan, an involved and rambling screenplay, originally written by Cesare Zavattini in 1940 and later published as a novel entitled Toto the Good, contrasts sharply with the simplicity and warm humanity of [the same writer-director team's] Bicycle Thief and gives director Vittorio De Sica less opportunities to guide his thespers to those extremely human, heart-warming performances which are his speciality. Whereas Thief was aimed at the audience heart, Miracle is aimed at the brain.
17. Miracle in Milan (1951) directed by Vittorio De Sica • Reviews, film + cast
The great Vittorio de Sica and his crew have succeeded in bringing the film's magical realism to life on screen, thanks in large part to the film's outstanding ...
An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in post-war Milan, helping them build a shanty town. When they discover oil, he receives a magical dove from a vision of his adoptive mother that grants wishes.
18. Miracle in Milan - Janus Films
Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (adapting his own novel) craft a big- ...
Once upon a time in postwar Italy . . . Vittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in which he combined his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (adapting his own novel) craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.
Restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film, in collaboration with Mediaset, Infinity, Arthur Cohn and Variety Communications at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
19. The film that changed my life: Beeban Kidron | Miracle in Milan
Jul 31, 2010 · It was such a terrific encapsulation of a young person's realisation that there is a world beyond the one lived in – reality on the one hand, ...
The director talks to Tom Lamont about Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan
20. Fifty Years of Film in 50 Weeks, #31: Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan ...
Oct 31, 2021 · When looking at various "best of 1951" lists, this film showed up on one of them and I jumped at the chance to view my first-ever Italian ...
"I've got five fingers on my hand and so does he. Do we have to know one another or each other's names to be brothers? No!" Miracolo a Milan...
21. Miracle in Milan (1951) - 4 Star Films
Aug 12, 2022 · With this absence of natural conflict or drama, at least initially, it becomes more of a roaming, rambling character piece. This in itself is ...
The title and the opening preface hint that this is a kind of fairy tale. True to form, Miracle in Milan opens with a baby being found not in the reeds like Moses but lying in a cabbage patch. He…
22. Miracle in Milan - Trailers From Hell
Apr 12, 2022 · This is a great event for Blu-ray collectors: Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) is now available in Region A, in a ...
Still believe in the goodness of people? Still hold out hope for the future? If so this is one picture you’ll want to catch up with sooner than later. ‘The Good Totò’ is literally found in a cabbage patch; the simple magic of kindness enables him to turn a shanty town into a little Utopia . . . for a few days. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini fashion a story that insists that magic is as real as sunlight, music, and the words ‘Good Morning’ — and that man is imperfect and his institutions unjust. Francesco Golisano, Brunella Bovo and the heavenly Emma Gramatica are unforgettable. The warmth and understanding here bests that of Charlie Chaplin.
