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Summary: Not so racist...
Review: I have seen this movie several times and, although it is not a comparable work to "Roma Citta Aperta" or "Bicycle Thieves", it is good rendition of a superb novel, and deals with the painful transition of the liberation period.I am very disappointed to see a reviewer classify it as racist, because he's "never heard" of Moroccan soldiers in Italy. This ignorant standpoint is very unfortunate. Those facts really did happen, the Moroccan troops being part of the French liberation contingent. It is one of the darkest pages in the war in Italy.
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Summary: "What about the children?"
Review: I saw "Two Women" on VHS, an Embassy Entertainment edition whose cover doesn't look like the cover shown here on Amazon. The film quality wasn't great but it was certainly adequate. It's worth looking for decent copy of this film for it's one that shouldn't be missed. This is a film showing the tragedy and pain that befalls ordinary people in the time of war. It's also a film about the relationship of a mother (Sophia Loren) to her 12 year-old daughter, a relationship that is warm and loving yet one that war tries to tears apart. Those who are convinced of the "necessity" or the "logic" of military action should watch "Two Women" and see how such action disrupts and tears up individuals, families and communities. The dislocation, food shortages, rape and death depicted in this film are all vestiges of war that have not changed and still affect war-torn areas today. The characters in this film are all very real, very believable; and this gives it greater credibility. The foremost example is Sophia Loren whose stunning beauty is tempered by her down-to-earth character. It's easy to see why some of the secondary characters fall in love with her. You will too.
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Summary: "What about the children?"
Review: I saw "Two Women" on VHS, an Embassy Entertainment edition whose cover doesn't look like the cover shown here on Amazon. The film quality wasn't great but it was certainly adequate. It's worth looking for decent copy of this film for it's one that shouldn't be missed. This is a film showing the tragedy and pain that befalls ordinary people in the time of war. It's also a film about the relationship of a mother (Sophia Loren) to her 12 year-old daughter, a relationship that is warm and loving yet one that war tries to tears apart. Those who are convinced of the "necessity" or the "logic" of military action should watch "Two Women" and see how such action disrupts and tears up individuals, families and communities. The dislocation, food shortages, rape and death depicted in this film are all vestiges of war that have not changed and still affect war-torn areas today. The characters in this film are all very real, very believable; and this gives it greater credibility. The foremost example is Sophia Loren whose stunning beauty is tempered by her down-to-earth character. It's easy to see why some of the secondary characters fall in love with her. You will too.
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Summary: disservic to a great star
Review: I saw The Two Women on a PBS release ten years ago, remembering it as enjoyable.This DVD version is a transfer of a fuzzy below VHS resolution copy from somewhere.NOT the high quality production. It actually hurts my eyes, and i cannot finish watching it.
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Summary: Unwatchable transfer ruins classic film
Review: I was excited to buy this DVD, based on various positive reviews and analyses of the film over the years. But the poorly done transfer makes this DVD unwatchable. It looks like someone pointed a camcorder at a movie screen showing a worn print, and then transferred the video to DVD.
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Summary: An Important Film In Dire Need of Restoration and Re-Release
Review: In 1961 TWO WOMEN was considered a shocker; over time, however, we have seen the trauma central to the film depicted on screen so often and so much more graphically that many will feel the film has lost its edge. Even so, Sophia Loren's justly famous performance is powerful enough to keep one focused on the film, and she is extremely well supported with strong performances by the likes of Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Raf Vallone. De Sica's very simple, unpretentious presentation also continues to serve the film extremely well. Loren is a widow who runs a small grocery store in Rome during World War II, and when the war moves in upon the city she decides to take daughter Rosetta (Brown) to the small village where she herself was born, but safety proves elusive. The trip to the village is frought with danger, and although the villagers have some safety in their isolation even they are subject to peril. When the Allies begin to close in on Rome, Loren decides to return to the city on foot with her daughter--and unwittingly places both her and her daughter at the mercy of renegade soliders who, in a scene once considered extraordinary violent, rape both mother and daughter in a bombed out church. Loren's performance here is simply extraordinary, and she gives us a woman of peasant mentality who has acquired a somewhat urban edge through her life as a shopkeeper in Rome, totally believable in her tunnel-visioned toughness; if any one ever had doubts that Hollywood essentially wasted her talents, they need look no further than this film for proof. Unfortunately, however, one need only look at the reviews here to realize how incredibly bad the prints of this film are. And not to put too fine a point on it, the Madacy release (which shows Loren and Brown in black and white on the cover) is easily one of the most incredibly shoddy videotapes it has ever been my misfortune to encounter: the picture slips in and out of focus, is consistently grainy, and the sound quality is atrocious. This is a film in desperate need of restoration--but until that happens, fans of world cinema will have to put up with it, for this is an important film that should be seen. Four stars for the film, zero for video quality.
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Summary: "Two Women" (Madacy Entertainment)
Review: Never mind the merits of this movie, which won an Oscar. Madacy has... extremely poor quality of the picture. It looks like a 5th generation copy of a VHS tape that has been copied to DVD. Shame on Madacy Entertainment for creating more landfill! I am giving it 1 star because they do not let me give it zero stars.
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Summary: Good Movie - Bad DVD
Review: One of the main reasons I bought this DVD was that I was under the false impression that I could turn off the subtitles. The technical details list English subtitles as "available," which to my way of thinking means I should be able to dispense with them if I so desire. Not the case with this DVD. The subtitles are stuck on there. I use these movies as language teaching tools, and being able to turn off the subtitles is a major improvement over video tape. This DVD does not do it for me. The technical details on the other DVD edition ...provide even less info. Other than that, this is a very powerful movie, though the picture and sound quality on the DVD are poor.
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Summary: JUNK!!! This movie deserves much better!!!
Review: Sad,sad,sad!!! What a great movie!!! But what a crappy DVD!!! SLP vhs tapes look better. A complete waste of money!!! This film deserves much better!!! YUCK!!!
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Summary: Amazon should be ashamed of the shoddy quality of the film
Review: Sophia Loren is very good, and the neo-realistic feel of war ravaged Italy makes this film interesting. But the quality of the recording is abysmal, and even ...you feel cheated. Indeed, the video (quality) looks like videos sold on street corners by entrepreneurs in the black market----....
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