THE MILL ON THE RIVER
(Lux Films) TALIAN films, as a general rule, seem to take some time to reach these parts, and the two I saw this week were no exceptions. The Mill on the River, from the novel of almost the same title by Riccardo Baccelli, was made in 1950
(directed by Alberto Lattuada, with Carlo Ponti as producer). But it’s still a good film, in which social and emotional conflicts generate more than enough power to break through the barrier of language. The story is of agrarian unrest in the Po Valley of the 1870s, of the rise of il Socialismo, of landlord against peasantry (a conflict not yet resolved in many parts of Italy), and of divided households and divided loyalties. Pictorially and dramatically the film is frequently impressive, and there are several pasages of almost classic qualitynotably one in which a battalion of infantry is used in an attempt to quell the peasants. To the Anglo-Saxon eye, however, there are times when the drama seems in danger of developing the overblown proportions of grand opera.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 16
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180THE MILL ON THE RIVER New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 16
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