Name and discuss the post-World War II Italian filmmaking school that was a favorite of the French film critic/theorist Andre Bazin. Why was this school so admired by Bazin?
What will be an ideal response?
In 1945, immediately following World War II, a movement called
neorealism sprang up in Italy and gradually influenced directors all over the world.
Spearheaded by Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, two of Bazin's favorite
filmmakers, neorealism de-emphasized editing. The directors favored deep-focus
photography, long shots, lengthy takes, and an austere restraint in the use of closeups.
When asked why he de-emphasized editing, Rossellini replied: "Things are there,
why manipulate them?" This statement might well serve as Bazin's theoretical credo.
He deeply admired Rossellini's openness to multiple interpretations, his refusal to
diminish reality by making it serve an ideological thesis. "Neorealism by definition
rejects analysis, whether political, moral, psychological, logical, or social, of the
characters and their actions," Bazin pointed out. "It looks on reality as a whole, not
incomprehensible, certainly, but inescapably one."
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