Neil Bahadur
17Jun11
No! Not at all! The best!
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DT
29May12
The sophomore entry in Rossellini’s war trilogy takes the form of an episodic narrative, recounting six separate tales scattered throughout the chronology of the Allied liberation of Italy. Showcasing lucid cinematography, with Rossellini also doing a fine job with a troupe of non-professional actors, it quickly becomes an engaging, multi-angled portmanteau of the filmmaker’s perennial subject matter.
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Mymosh the Selfbegotten
29Mar12
"Paisan" is the key to the enigma of neo-realism. The cornerstone of the movement is not location shooting or lack of professional actors but the idea of misunderstood martyrdom, manufactured in order to overcome the shame of a nation that managed to lose WW2 to both sides simultaneously. In that sense, every neo-realist movie is a war movie. If you want to understand what De Sica's weepies are about, watch "Paisan".
Christopher Taylor
25Jul11
An excellent pastiche of small stories to illustrate a bigger picture. My favorite one is the soldier who falls in love with the girl that has changed over the course of six months. People mirroring the changes in Italy at that time.
JP. Schmidt
19Jul11
Such a change up from the first in the War Trilogy. The episodic nature of it really brought me through all the emotions from laughter, heart warmth and wrenching, etc
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Jerry Johnson
20Apr10
The greatest war film of them all. Rossellini had no time for neo-realism- he was too busy redefining poetry.
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Camilla
17Mar10
A masterpiece. The best film by Rossellini, in my opinion. Its fragmented structure conveys the disorientation of the post WWII years in Italy, as well as the extreme sense of loss and chaos which followed the experience of the civil war and the Resistance. Suspended between documentary and film, Paisan attains the level of symbolic realism, where every element is brutally true and yet has a great symbolic value.
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