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In Italian with English subtitles. The title translates to
The Sinner.
According to film historian Ettore M. Margadonna, director Amleto Palermi (1890-1941) “began with sentimental comedies, but gradually deepened the tone of his pictures until we find him doing
La Peccatrice, in which new roots of Italian realism are detectable.” The story concerns a young woman who has suffered years of meaningless jobs and exploitation because she was abandoned by a former lover. In 1940, a young film critic named
Michelangelo Antonioni wrote that “for the first time in Italian Cinema an attempt is made to give clear cinematic completeness to a character and consequently to a film, with a fusion that is reciprocally functional of phonic vision and rhythmic values, of a penetrating expressivity.”
Also starring the great
Vittorio De Sica, this is one of the great unsung works of Italian cinema.
