Bitter Rice (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
An earthy drama of human passions among women rice workers in the Po Valley.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 12, 2016
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano & Raf Vallone | |
Directed by | Giuseppe De Santis | |
Screenwriting by | Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani & Gianni Puccini | |
Cinematography by | Otello Martelli | |
Director of Photography: | Dino De Laurentiis |
Entertainment Reviews:
The first 10 minutes of Bitter Rice more or less establishes what the movie’s going to be: sexy and noir-inflected, with more docu-realistic footage of rice cultivating than the average pulpy crime picture.
A.V. Club
'Bitter Rice'-- a film that initiated a change in direction for a big national player in world cinema -- holds up enough after all these years.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
There is so much to be learned from Bitter Rice, even today. It is a perfect surprise, proving how important and how much fun it is to discover older movies with fresh eyes.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Rating: B --
A quintessential film of Italian neorealism of postWWII, though it became an international sensation due to the overt sex appeal and shot of breasts of Silvana Mangano, then only 19.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 7.5/10 --
[A] femininely-charged setting sets Bitter Rice apart from the masculine, urban underworlds typically inhabited within the noir genre.
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Under the Radar
Shameless eye candy with a social message.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
Product Description:
The story of a man who toils in the rice fields of the Po Valley, exploited by rice growers and harrassed by their field men.
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- Sales Rank: 64,903
- UPC: 715515165112
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