The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, September 2-8
Voyage to Italy (1954)
Directed by Roberto Rossellini
On a road trip through Italy to dispose of a recently inherited property, Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders discover to their surprise the shabby disrepair of their marriage, neither of them certain whether it can or should be saved. Always choosing understated observation over dramatization, Rossellini deftly maps the tensions and fissures that threaten—or constitute—their relationship, without cranking the gears of a contrived plot or lapsing into portents. The five features he made starring then-wife Bergman are high points not just of their respective careers, but of the medium itself; elemental and unadorned, they are founding texts of cinematic modernism. Eli Goldfarb (September 8, 7:45pm at MoMA’s Ingrid Bergman centennial)