Two Women

A rare look at World War II from a woman’s perspective but also not from the Allies side. Still she is less political about she simply wants to war over and to protect her daughter.

I have seen more than my share of European movies and I liked Loren in A special day, but I found the first 35 minutes of this movie totally boring. I recognize that Loren received three major awards for her performance. Not my cup of tea.

In War can happen anything. It is hard to have the strenght to pass through.

Very well done, outstanding movie. Sophia Loren is wonderful.

A war drama from a widowed mother's perspective seems like a very complex and tense film yet it is very well executed. That is Vittorio De Sica's film Two Women as it tells the story of a widowed mother (played by Sophia Loren) who tries to protect his daughter's innocence from the horrors of war. Sophia Loren who has starred in films in the past like Attila and Houseboat puts on a very daring and wonderful performance in Two Women. The costume designs in the film were pretty authentic for my taste. What is very nuanced and tense for this film was the film's cinematography by Gábor Pogány because of a certain scene in this film that became the turning point. All because that scene alone changed the atmosphere of the film. Two Women is a very poignant, heartbreaking, daring, and brilliant film.

Sophia Loren "was created differently, behaved differently, affected me differently from any woman I have known," Two Women director/writer Vittorio De Sica once said. "I looked at that face, those unbelievable eyes, and I saw it all as a miracle." Given the starring role in Two Women, Sophia Loren delivered the first Best Actress Oscar ever given for a performance in a foreign-language film.

I saw this film years ago and never forgot it. It is brutal and tender.

The lead performance is all it has going for it.

Director: Vittorio De Sica Writers: Alberto Moravia (novel), Cesare Zavattini (adaptation) Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown A moving, WWII Italian neorealist film . Sophia Loren's performance is astoundingly good. As is Eleonora Brown who plays her daughter,"Rosetta". Loren deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar This film is about the ravages of war and what it does to an entire people but it concentrates on a mother and twelve year old daughter who have lost the ability to interact with one another but find it again after their shared tragedy. It's an extremely powerful film that leaves you worn out from your emotional bond with Loren, becoming the first performer to win an Oscar in a non-English role. Unquestionably, this is a emotional and compelling film, showing the will of "Two Women" who struggle In the aftermath of the Second World War. A fine example of what Italian cinema has contributed to an international audiences. Superb Italian film. 9/10

The disturbingly heartwrenching sequence of a mother and her daughter mass raped during Marocchinate in Vittorio De Sica's Italian World War II tragedy impels the Academy to bestow Sophia Loren the honour to be the first actress to win an Oscar for a performance in a foreign language film.