What is Italian neorealism cinema?

Italian neorealist film refers to the realist film movement that began in Italy in the 1940s. It was of great significance to world film aesthetics and film shooting practices, and became the most important film in Western films during this period. Phenomenon.

Italy’s outstanding film artists emerged from the long rule of fascism and from the rubble of the post-war era. They tried their best to raise funds and film to shoot films. Like the European film artists after World War I, they did not care about tradition and were creative and exploratory.

The aesthetic characteristics of Italian neorealism:

The formation of the aesthetic characteristics of Italian neorealism was influenced by literature, painting, music and other art forms, and this influence not only It originates from the long local history and culture, as well as the erosion of artistic trends from other countries.

First of all, Italy’s own artistic tradition cannot be ignored. From Dante, Boccaccio and the three masters of the Renaissance to Caravaggio and Canova in the Baroque period; to Verga in the late 19th century, and opera singers such as Mascagni and Puccini who accepted his ideas , Realism has an extremely long history and deep cultural roots in Italy.

Secondly, the directors of French "poetic realism" films in the 1930s also had a great influence on the creators of neorealism: De Sica and Rossellini both publicly expressed Through his admiration for René Clair; Visconti worked as an assistant on Jean Renoir's short film Partie de campagne (1936).

Antonioni also worked on the set of Marcel Canet's Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942); Umberto Barbaro even described Weiss in his commentary Conti's "The Fall" has been compared to "Le Quai des Brumes" (1938).