Two Women
1960, 100 minutes, Rated M
Chosen as the National Board of Review's five best foreign films for 1961, Two Women firmly entrenched Sophia Loren as a highly respected and talented actress. She won an Academy Award for this role - the first time such an honour had been bestowed on the lead in a foreign-language film. Loren was also voted Best Foreign Actress by the British Film Academy, and Best Actress at the New York Film Critics and at Cannes.
The story centers around Cesira (Loren), a widow who runs a tiny grocery store in Rome. When the store is bombed during the war, she returns to her native village with her beautiful thirteen-year-old daughter Rosetta (Eleanora Brown), leaving her store in the care of a neighbour. Back in the village, a timid school teacher named Michele (Jean-Paul Belmondo) falls in love with Cesira. Her young daughter also secretly falls in love with him, and soon becomes alienated from her mother because of it. While on a war mission Michele is killed and in their grief the mother and daughter become friends once more and agree to return to Rome. The two woman seek refuge in a church while they are traveling home - and this encounter will change their lives forever.
- Director:
- Vittorio De Sica [5],
- Starring:
- Sophia Loren [20], Carlo Ninchi [1], Pupella Maggio [1], Emma Baron [1], Eleonora Brown [1], Andrea Checchi [2], Jean-Paul Belmondo [3],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Mono
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