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neorealism

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neorealism [ˌniːəʊˈriːəlɪzəm]
n
(Performing Arts) Films a movement to depict directly the poor in society: originating in postwar Italy
neorealist  n & adj


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The discovery that she has exchanged one set of checkpoints for another doesn't prevent Muna -- an archetypical maternal survivor straight out of Italian neorealism -- from buckling down to the business of survival in a culture whose traditional mistrust of dark-skinned foreigners is exacerbated by 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
And, he says, he was inspired by the Italian neorealism films from the '50s and '60s.
Critic Michel Ciment, who heads the rival magazine to the Cahiers du Cinema, "Positif", said in an interview that the New Wave film-makers "represent one of the key international movements in the history of film, much like Neorealism or the German Expressionists".
 
 
 
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