"Highly praised by critics, "Bitter Rice" was one of the landmark films of the post-war Italian neorealist movement. The 19-year-old Silvana Mangano (in her first screen role) portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from Justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a decision which brings disaster not only to her but to her co-workers. Silvana Mangano is here unforgettable, especially in the torrid boogie-woogie that anticipates - with elegance - the figure of the curvaceous woman of the FiftieS". IN ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN NEW DELHI
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