I guess OTTO means me?
Six Degrees of Troy McClure is proud to select, in the Black & White category, La Ciociara (Two Women).
Sometimes Sophia Loren comes across as glamourous eye-candy, but here, wow, this is a stunning acting performance. She became the first person to receive an acting Academy Award for a non-English-speaking role, and she won similar awards at Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. The story follows the refugee travels of a mother and daughter, Cesira (Loren) and Rosetta, who flee Rome into rural Italy, become friends with the locals including a handsome intellectual communist sympathizer who's captured by the Germans. Eventually, Rome is liberated by the allied forces and Cesira and Rosetta return, but the journey home turns tragic. You want a heart-wrenching, difficult-to-watch ending, this movie is among the most brutal and powerful I've seen. Clips to come later.
