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Renato Castellani - Due soldi di speranza (1952) aka Two Cents Worth of Hope

Posted By: amlo01

Date: 3 Jul 2011 13:24:22

Renato Castellani - Due soldi di speranza (1952) aka Two Cents Worth of Hope

Due soldi di speranza (1952) aka Two Cents Worth of Hope - Renato Castellani
DVD-Rip | AVI Xvid at 1 594 Kbps | 640 x 480 (1.333) at 25.000 fps | MP3 at 152 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: Italian | Subtitles: English | Runtime: 1h 31mn | 1.12 GiB
Director: Renato Castellani | Genres: Drama, Comedy

Cast: Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo

Due Soldi di Speranza is better known by its English-language titles Two Pennies of Hope and Two Cents Worth of Hope. The film was the third in director Renato Castellani's "young love" trilogy (the first two being Sotto il sole di Roma and E Primavera). Filmed on location near Naples, the story concerns the romance between Carmela (Maria Fiore) and Antonio (Vincenzo Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart's desire. Once he's "hooked," Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado. Due Soldi di Speranza won the 1952 Best Film award at the Cannes Festival. (Hal Erickson @ allrovi.com)

A more cheerful face upon the presence of post-war poverty and privation in Italy than has been shown by any previous film from that land is warmly and amiably exposed in Renato Castellani's new comedy at the World, "Two Cents Worth of Hope." As a matter of fact, the good-humor in this little film is so benign and the problems it places to the marriage of a man and maid appear so engineered that it is really less a comment on poorness than just a good, gay Italian family farce.

That is certainly nothing against it. As a lively and buoyant tale of the wistful and hilarious quandries into which a village young man and girl are thrown by the basic fact that the young fellow doesn't have enough money to marry the girl, it is wholly and admirably valid in the entertainment line and throws out some fascinating sidelights on village customs and characters.

For instance, the horrendous tangle into which a group of hack drivers get themselves when they try to form a "cooperative" to run a station bus makes a grand lot of genuine native humor, and a little scene in which two mothers strike a deal for the marriage of a middle-aged man and an old-maid daughter, with the priest umpiring the deal, rings richly true.

The characters, too, are delightful and are reflective, beyond any doubt, of the typical villagers in the area of Naples, where Signor Castellani recruited his cast and made his film. A lively girl named Maria Fiore plays the sultry and eccentric miss who is prevented from marrying the hero by her willful father, the fireworks-maker in the town. And a strapping chap, Vincenzo Musolino, is grandly explosive and harassed as the poor man who has to support his family and earn a dowry for his sister before he can take a wife. As his mother, Filomena Russo, is wonderfully fluent with Italian gestures and moods, and Luigi Astarita, Carmela Cirillo and many others are fine in lesser roles.

But it must be said that Signor Castellani and those who worked with him on the script have used parental opposition only as a contrivance for their tale. When they have spun out sufficient complications and incidents with this device, they easily arrange for their young lovers to solve their dilemma naturally.

The consequence is that the picture—which, by the way, won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival last spring—is flavorsome and impressive, undeniably realistic and aptly paced, but it misses a convincing conveyance of the real pathos that lies somewhere within its tale. (Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, December 16 1952)

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DVD-Rip Xvid | 640 x 480 | 0.2 bpp | MP3 152 Kbps | English subs

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Format : AVI
File size : 1.12 GiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate : 1 759 Kbps

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Codec ID : XVID
Resolution : 640 x 480 pixels
Bit rate : 1 594 Kbps
Aspect ratio : 1.333
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
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Bit rate : 152 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Language : Italian

includes english subtitles (.srt)

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