Two Women
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Movie Reviews of Two Women
Movie Review: Powerful.
Summary: 4 Stars
Two Women starring Sophia Loren is a explosive foreign language film. Loren proves she's more than a sexy woman, she won an Oscar for best actress for this movie. The transfer is my only gripe, the tracking is horrible. The subtitles and story are easy to understand. This film has a rape scene but nothing is shown, powerful and raw drama. I highly recommend it.Movie Review: DVD quality complaints
Summary: 4 Stars
Saw the film on AMC the other night..the video and audio of the master is bad...Movie Review: Great movie, lousy DVD transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
[5 Stars for De Sica's movie; 0 stars for the trashy DVD]
Sophia Loren won an Oscar and fame with this portrayal of a young widowed mother who escapes war-torn Rome in 1943 with her 13-year-old daughter (played by Eleanora Brown), only to encounter worse hardships on the road, including rape. Loren is feisty and earthy; when she meets an intellectual and idealist (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who falls madly in love with her, she doesn't understand him and rejects his loftiness. The rape scene, especially of Brown, whom Lauren has protected all her life, is brutal, and it unhinges Brown temporarily: her body and soul just shut down - until they learn of the death of Belmondo, whom Brown had loved more than Loren did. De Sica directs brilliantly: every frame has purpose to it, nothing is wasted.
The print used to make this DVD is a piece of garbage, and why that's so is hard to understand. I remember watching this years ago on VHS and the print there was fine (it's what I base the above paragraph on). I can only suggest that if you want to watch this movie, get the VHS.
Movie Review: Why, oh WHY!???
Summary: 3 Stars
Why, oh why is the vast majority of Sophia Loren's Italian movies so cheaply & poorly made? A few have been 're-mastered' but one cannot find
a decent copy of "Two Women", WHICH, I might add, was shown on TCM the other night in Italian w/subtitles, widescreen, beautiful copy!!! Why can't WE buy this???? Is ANYONE listening. Sophia is too talented and beautiful to have her 'native' films languish. She is a LIVING LEGEND!!!
Movie Review: Great movie, horrible DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie is beautiful, but (as all other reviewers mention) the DVD is almost unwatchable. The image quality is awful, and the subtitles actually are **ridiculously inaccurate** (I AM Italian, so you can believe me...). And I couldn't even turn them off, so even if you speak Italian there is no way you can avoid being bothered by them!! The sound is very poor too. Even for an Italian, it's not easy to follow the dialogues, and it's not because of southern accent, it's just that the sound is awful. But, after all, it's cheap, and nowadays you can't expect a good DVD for such a low price...