Europe '51 / Europa '51 (1952) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #674]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC 988x720, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 49mn | 2.15 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps | Subtitles: English
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC 952x720, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 1hr 58mn | 2.24 GB
Italian: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | Director: Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity. The intense, often overlooked Europe ’51 was, according to Rossellini, a retelling of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a female perspective. This unabashedly political but sensitively conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director’s favorite of his films.