Bitter Rice
An earthy drama of human passions among women rice workers in the Po Valley.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Reel Vault
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 |
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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
'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
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
Shameless eye candy with a social message.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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: 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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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: 40,053
- UPC: 644827543229
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