Episode 206 – Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan

This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan.

With its documentary-like visuals and intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality.

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EPISODE LINKS

• Paisan (1946)
• Paisan: More Real Than Real
• ‘Paisan,’ Italian Importation, Tops Four Openings – Two Other Foreign Films Seen – The New York Times
• Roberto Rossellini and World War II: Part Two – The American Society of Cinematographers
• Amazon.com: Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy

EPISODE CREDITS

• Jordan Essoe (Twitter / Website)
• Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension)
• David Blakeslee (Twitter / Criterion Reflections)
• Arik Devens (Twitter / funfact.fm)