Bitter Rice (1949)
Dir. Giuseppe De Santis. Starring Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling, Vittorio Gassman The radio announcer in the beginning of the film tells us why the rice fields of northern Italy are manned entirely by women; they have faster, smaller hands. And so we are thrust into a world full of women, where men are interlopers, flinging chaos… Read More Bitter Rice (1949)