Italian Director Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy, starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, was originally released in 1954. The film, now beautifully digitally restored, examines the breakdown of the troubled marriage of a wealthy and sophisticated English couple as they travel to Naples, Italy to sell a deceased uncle's villa. A frosty distance engulfs their relationship and aspects of Naples only adds to their loneliness. Catherine (Bergman) spends her days sightseeing by herself. Remembering a poet who loved her and died in the war, underscores romance's absence from her life now. Meanwhile, her husband (Sanders) idles on Capri, flirting with women.
Italy 1954 88 min.
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
