MIRACLE IN MILAN

Cinestudio welcomes you back to a New Year of unbeatable magic of movies on the big screen! Film aficionados young and mature are returning to cinemas, and what could be a better reward than a funny and fantastical triumph directed by Vittorio De Sica? The great filmmaker’s follow-up to Bicycle Thieves is a comedy with a social conscience, set in a poverty-stricken shantytown in post-World War II Milan. A baby who is found in a vegetable patch and taken in by the town grows up to be the sunny, guileless Totó, played by Francesco Golisano. Totó has one prized possession, an enchanted dove which can grant his wishes. But when oil is found beneath the town, should they wish for wealth or freedom?

“Purest gold… The rich vein of sly compassionate humor that Charlie Chaplin and René Clair used to mine with unparalleled genius has been tapped by De Sica in Miracle in Milan.”– The New York Times.

Stylized poetry… like nothing else De Sica ever did.”– Pauline Kael