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Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 27 - Raffaelo [DVD] [1949] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Yvonne Sanson (Actor), Amedeo Nazzari (Actor), Raffaello Matarazzo (Director) | Format: DVD
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5.0 out of 5 stars Italy's Douglas Sirk, master of melodrama 10 July 2011
By Frankdecavalcante - Published on Amazon.com
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I was fascinated by a review of a reissue of Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas in the New York Times and couldnt wait to purchase the boxed set. The showpieces of the collection are the two related melodramas, "Nobody's Children" and "The White Angel." Both star veteran Italian actor, Amedeo Nazzari, an Errol Flynn lookalike and a beautiful Yvonne Sanson, who at various times looks like Joan Crawford and Ava Gardner. The plots are absolutely fantastic, with villains out of the early silents and more plot complications and coincidences that truly defy reason. Both stories verge on camp sensibilities, yet both films are utterly fascinating. Just when you think you have seen enough, the director surprises us once again with another unbelievable plot twist. It would be easy to poke fun at these films, but they never fail to entertain, and, at times, they are truly moving. Freudian undertones of suffocating mother love, the eternal Italian Madonna/ whore conflict and the Christian idea of suffering leading to redemption infuse these offbeat and highly melodramatic films. We may laugh at them, based on our familiarity with the classic Italian films of the same time, but they always are engrossing and they never bore.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb 1 Sep 2011
By Antony Sellers - Published on Amazon.com
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While Italian neo-realist filmmaking conquered home and the world, with directors such as de Sica, Rossellini & Visconti at the forefront of the paradigm changing movement, in Italy itself, in the late 1940s, and early to mid 1950s, these heightened melodramas from Raffaello Matarazzo, were king of the box office, beloved of the ordinary classes of peasants and factory workers, telling stories of relationships stretched to bizarre limits, with restitution often found with a heavy overlay of conventional Catholic morality, they nevertheless remain hugely entertaining, and form a missing link in our understanding of Italian cinema of the period. One of the finest Eclipse sets yet!
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