Article: The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini.(Review)

by Tag Gallagher. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. 852 pp., illus. Paperback: $24.50.

Among connoisseurs of classic European films, Roberto Rossellini's career is universally associated with the appearance of Open City in 1945 and the birth of Italian neorealism, the moment in film history that begins the Italian cinema's slow but inexorable rise to preeminence in Europe between the end of the war and the 1970s, before its sudden decline in the past two decades. Yet, many Americans who ignore the very existence of European 'art' films are equally likely to remember him as the man whose adulterous love affair with Ingrid Bergman provided fodder for angry ...

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