The child scrounger is about as “neorealism” as it gets, pointing toward his counterpart in Buñuel’s Los Olvidados from a couple years later. And it’s not neorealism without a heavy dose…
Italian neorealism was seen as coming to an end when Vittorio de Sica made Umberto D. De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief and Rosselini’s Rome, Open City triggered the film movement,…