Saturday, May 30 11:30am
Monday, June 1 7pm
Every year hundreds of women flock to temporary harvesting jobs in the rice paddies of Northern Italy, a perfect setting for working-class drama and romance. Doris Dowling is soaking in it – on the lam from the law, torn between a crook boyfriend and an upright soldier, trying to get on with her fellow workers. Giuseppe De Santis fuses neo-realism and melodrama into an indelible cinema experience. – Lee Gardner
1949 Giuseppe De Santis 1.37:1 B&W DCP 109 min. In Italian with subtitles.
