Bitter Rice/bd

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Bitter Rice/bd

Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a decision which brings disaster not only to her but to her co-workers. The rice-field scenes are realistic enough to pass muster as documentary footage, though they tend to be undercut in the English-language version by the amateurish dubbing. Critics were unanimous in their praise for Bitter Rice; their words were, however, ignored by the male fans who came to see the film solely on the strength of the now-famous production still of the buxom Silvana Mangano standing in the rice field wearing tight shorts and torn black stockings

Riso amaro

Media	Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc)
Number of discs	1
Released	January 12, 2016
EAN/UPC	0715515165112
Label	Criterion CCIN2566BR
Genre	Drama
Dimensions	135 × 166 × 14 mm · 103 g
Playtime	01:49:00
Region code	Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia)
Language	Original language
Subtitles	English
Director	Giuseppe De Santis
Skuespiller	Vittorio Gassman
Skuespiller	Doris Dowling
Skuespiller	Silvana Mangano
Skuespiller	Raf Vallone
Skuespiller	Checco Rissone
Skuespiller	Nico Pepe