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Voyage to Italy
(Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
One of cinema's strangest and most uncanny love stories, made just as Rossellini's own marriage to Ingrid Bergman was beginning to crack. It captures brilliantly the boredom, contempt and irritation clouding the relationship between husband and wife, Alex (George Sanders) and Katherine Joyce (Bergman) as they reluctantly spend time together in the hothouse atmosphere of Naples. What is startling and very moving, though, is their reconciliation.
Blurb from the Guardian
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