Italian Neorealism is a film movement by stories set amongst the poor and working class, using non-professional actors and filmed on location. Italian Neoralist films represents the economic difficulty in Italy during the world war II by portraying the conditions of everyday life and that includes poverty, desperation, injustice and oppression.
There is no definitive source for the term Neorealism but it was said that it first appeared in the early 1940s in the writings of Italian critics. Today most historians believe that Neorealist filmmaking was not a complete break with Italian cinema under Mussolini. The film White Ship (1941) by Roberto Rossellini, a pseudo-documentary prepared the way for more direct handling of contemporary events. The current trends that time such as regional dialect comedy and urban melodrama encouraged the directors and scriptwriters to turn towards realism and this trend later became known as the Neorealist movement.
Neorealism created a distinctive approach to film style.
Shooting on the streets and in private buildings made Italian Camera operators skilled at cinematography that often avoided the three-point lighting system of Hollywood.
The movement exercised a strong influence on the individual filmmakers such as Ermanno Olmi and Satyajit Ray and on groups such as the French New Wave.
Before I end this post, this is the trailer of 'The Bicycle Thief'. A nice example of an Italian Neorealist film.
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