Stromboli (1950)
Stromboli, for those who don’t know your old movie trivia, is the film that exiled Ingrid Bergman from Hollywood for years. She went to Italy (a sure sign that your career is going south anyway) and made a movie with married director Roberto Rossellini, had an affair with him, got pregnant, broke up his marriage, and wasn’t accepted back into polite, American society for six years. Nowadays, that’s pretty much the only reason anyone wants to watch this movie, to find out for themselves if Ingrid’s choice was worth it.
Stromboli is not the greatest film Ingrid ever made. It’s a low-budget, European movie that feels like a low-budget, European movie. With a terribly slow start, Ingrid is being held in a post-war detainment camp, and she agrees to marry an Italian man she knows nothing about. She thinks she’ll have a better life, but she soon finds it’s merely a different kind of prison. She can’t communicate with her neighbors (which is a bit funny, since in real life, Ingrid was fluent in five languages), her every move is witnessed and gossiped about, she’s given strict guidelines about how to live her life, and her husband hits her, yells at her, and makes her feel unloved. When she reaches the end of her rope and turns to a priest for help, he merely tells her to pray about it.
Since I am an Ingrid Bergman fan, I’m always glad to see a good performance of hers. She was much better in Stromboli than I had expected. She has big weeping scenes, as well as moments of strength, insecurity, and confusion. As a woman with such a large stature, you might not think she could be convincing as a weak wife who gets beaten. Surely, all she had to do would be stand up straight and hit him back, right? But it’s called acting, folks, and she is good at her job. If you really like Ingrid and haven’t seen this movie, you can give it a shot. It isn’t very flattering to the Italian culture, though, like Zorba the Greek isn’t very flattering to the Cretons. They’re shown to be judgmental, abusive, ignorant, and happily stuck in their ways. Also, there are a couple of scenes you might want to fast-forward if you have a weak stomach. There’s a graphic fishing scene and also a violent fight between a ferret and a rabbit, both of which make Ingrid sick. Why are they included in the movie? I have no idea, except to show another unflattering aspect of Italians.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to upsetting scenes involving animals, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
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More Ingrid Bergman movies here!
Stromboli is not the greatest film Ingrid ever made. It’s a low-budget, European movie that feels like a low-budget, European movie. With a terribly slow start, Ingrid is being held in a post-war detainment camp, and she agrees to marry an Italian man she knows nothing about. She thinks she’ll have a better life, but she soon finds it’s merely a different kind of prison. She can’t communicate with her neighbors (which is a bit funny, since in real life, Ingrid was fluent in five languages), her every move is witnessed and gossiped about, she’s given strict guidelines about how to live her life, and her husband hits her, yells at her, and makes her feel unloved. When she reaches the end of her rope and turns to a priest for help, he merely tells her to pray about it.
Since I am an Ingrid Bergman fan, I’m always glad to see a good performance of hers. She was much better in Stromboli than I had expected. She has big weeping scenes, as well as moments of strength, insecurity, and confusion. As a woman with such a large stature, you might not think she could be convincing as a weak wife who gets beaten. Surely, all she had to do would be stand up straight and hit him back, right? But it’s called acting, folks, and she is good at her job. If you really like Ingrid and haven’t seen this movie, you can give it a shot. It isn’t very flattering to the Italian culture, though, like Zorba the Greek isn’t very flattering to the Cretons. They’re shown to be judgmental, abusive, ignorant, and happily stuck in their ways. Also, there are a couple of scenes you might want to fast-forward if you have a weak stomach. There’s a graphic fishing scene and also a violent fight between a ferret and a rabbit, both of which make Ingrid sick. Why are they included in the movie? I have no idea, except to show another unflattering aspect of Italians.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to upsetting scenes involving animals, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Jack" for posting!
More Ingrid Bergman movies here!