Viva o cinema italiano e o neorealismo que vos circunda, um filme que se faz muito presente em nossa contemporaneidade e, nos mostra as realidades fundamentais de um passado não muito remoto.

Rome, Open City is a bleak, grisly look at war-battered Rome filmed only 6 months after the city fell to the Allies in WWII. Rossellini uses a mix of actors and non-actors to fill out the cast, which altogether makes the story as realistic as you can get without it being just a documentary. This being said, the movie is very slow and bereft of the action I had anticipated given the “resistance fighters” mentioned in the short summary. As a piece of art history, Rome, Open City must be unmatched for the period. However, the whole “Italian Neo-Realism” genre may not be for me, as it relies too heavily on human emotion and, well, realism, instead of acting, plot/structure, and art. This is one of those difficult movies to rate and review because its importance far outweighs its artistic value in 2024. For this reason, I’ve scored it high. But on its own, I cannot say that a typical contemporary viewer would find it enjoyable without watching for this aforementioned significance. I loved the ending with Father Pellegrini (Aldo Fabrizi), but man was it just one more dollop of despondency on this pile of depression.

A poetic style with substance but it runs very slow. The precepts of the neorealist cinema is very well developed. 4/10

Not only is Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City an influential cornerstone of the Italian neorealism movement, it's also a great movie. Set in Nazi occupied Rome of 1944, members of the Resistance desperately try to escape the German army, knowing that capture will lead to certain torture and probable death. It's a compelling story from the get-go, thanks primarily to remarkably well-developed characters, characters filled with courage, principles and humanity. While the first part of the film is filled with intrigue and suspense, the second half is something else altogether and is unforgettable in its impact. Rome, Open City is a film that is worthy of the praise bestowed upon it.

Builds to a dramatic and emotional closing half hour. At time a little confusing what's going on, partly as subtitles were worse than I've seen before, missing huge chunks. Worth watching for the ending scenes as much as anything.

Monumental achievement of neo-realism. Hardly a tired parable of 'Fascism = Bad' but more of a examination of what makes one human and what it takes to lose all sense of humanity. Not even by how you treat other people but how you perceive and treat yourself as a person. As Don Pietro said: "It isn't hard to die well, It is hard to live well."

Rome open city is a masterpiece of Italian and world cinema. This film is truly thrilling and realistic. All these thanks to the touching interpretations of Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi and the excellent direction of Roberto Rossellini. A must-see at least once in a lifetime.

Classic! That film is the model of every film.

This movie is a cinematic masterpiece. It truly shows the struggle that happened when fighting fascism in Italy during WWII. Utilizing characters of different political ideologies and backgrounds, such as Manfredi being a communist atheist and Don Pietro being a priest, was a brilliant move to showcase the themes of unity that is required to fight the oppressive systems of fascism. It shows the impact had by children as well. As a piece of art, it was also cinematically beautiful, with its close shots and mid shots, giving us a more personal show of the characters, making the audience become more drawn in to them. What also makes this film enjoyable for the audience is how relatable and real the characters were. As a neorealist film, it does a spectacular job at making this film as real as possible, even though it does make it clear that the Nazis are the villains and the Resistance are the heroes. This is a tale of good vs. evil, and it tells us that we must be unified in order to defeat fascism, which is a theme I believe to be important, even today. Overall, this movie utilizes cinematography and characterization in a truly genius way to show the audience that Manfredi, Pina, and the rest of the fighters are truly fighting for a just cause, and they must do what it takes to ensure freedom, going to any length to fight the evil that is the Nazis. In a way, I'm glad that it made this struggle be a blatant good vs. evil, not making the Nazis sympathetic characters, I believed that to be a smart move on the director's part. I would watch this movie again and recommend it to anyone that enjoys Itlaian cinema.

So insane to think that the Nazi's could just barge into your home, no questions asked just because they have orders or are suspicious. Man that Anna Magnani is a catch, what a woman. I really liked her in The Golden Coach. Fantastic movie! Interesting character this priest guy. He seems to be doing tasks and helping out the Resistance group in Italy. Wow, that Marina, the cabaret dancer, looks incredible. She can model no problem. The shape of her eyes are very interesting, very pretty girl. Wow, the kids seems to be little freedom fighters blowing up that gas tank in the rail yard. So funny how as each kid got to the door of their house, their father would immediately smack them across the face yelling at them asking where they've been. So crazy how the priest hid the mp40 and bomb under the old man's sheets lol. Great stuff. Well that took a pretty dark turn. I wasn't expecting Pina to be shot down like a dog on the street. That was dumb on her part, she shouldn't have ran after her husband. Wow, this Marina chick is selling out to the Nazi's just so she can fill her empty void with meaningless material things. Bitch. She's also kind of getting brainwashed with that drug that German girl is giving her. I really liked what that one German officer in the fancy lounge area was saying. He was very cynical but also very realistic and almost on another level of consciousness then everyone else. He basically said that we Nazi's all were good at is killing, killing, killing and that we're gonna burn in hell for what we've done. Corpses lying across Europe. He went on to say that the Nazi's are a weak race compared to the other Europeans who would rather die than sell out and talk to the Nazi's. Watching these old movies where the subject matter has to do with Nazi's or the holocaust or WWII made me realize how ballsy directors were back then to make films that ridiculed or made fun of the Nazi's, basically made a satire out of them. Showing how stupid and pointless bullies they were. Very insightful and very well done war thriller movie. A very dark and stark reminder of how ruthless and evil the Nazi's were. But the movie also shows us how weak the Nazi's were and how strong everyone that stood up against them was. I like how the final shot is the kids walking away holding each other. A statement saying how they are the future and they are the ones that can change things for the better. Very impactful movie.

Ritmara la realiza, cruda realista

The occupation period may have been too open of a wound to ensure the commercial success of this Rossellini epic upon first release, but history has been very kind to its reputation. While initially creating a relatively bland group of rebels brought together only by a shared sense of egalitarian patriotism struggling against a vague occupying force, Rome, Open City gradually tests the nature of their dedication to both country and morality in gripping fashion, and is particularly strong in its establishment of realistic, diverse wartime threats at home. A masterpiece that deserves a greater degree of recognition among modern American audiences. (4.5/5)

Anna Magnani has a great performance in Roberto Rossellini's magnum opus about Nazi occupied Rome.

A watershed film in cinema history

Rome, Open City: A early and groundbreaking Itallian neorealist masterpiece. With its grounded characters, humanisim and spirit; especially for its time peroid, Rome, Open City is not the epitome of Itallian cinema but is for sure near the top, one with a mastery of tension and compelling drama.

A film during the Italian cinema movement that gave the phrase "gritty realism" its definition. Under Nazi rule,this movie shows that nothing is sacred.

A great movie from back when fighting Nazis, not joining them, was considered the most patriotic thing you could do.

Precise filmmaking, historically detailed like a documentary and emotionally moving and captivating like the old Hollywood epics, it is a classic.

A well made story about occupied Italy during ww2. 1001 movies to see before you die.

This hardly seems like an invented fiction, functioning as this era of Nazi occupation did, everything deteriorating. I wonder if Rogue One took its cue from this film - I see similarities with how the Empire destroys all the heroes, and we are left with only the hope that the next generation of youth will stand up to the evil. But the youth here don't look hopeful, they're downtrodden, beaten. I like the one sardonic Nazi officer who gets drunk and blasphemies the whole Nazi effort. This displeases our lead antagonist, who persistently tries to remind him of the uniform he wears. But the officer continues, accusing this whole master race effort of nothing but violence. Years before Hitchcock did it to Janet Leigh, Rosselini shocks us by killing off the lead in the second act, or as he calls it Part 1 - Anna Magnani's Pina is gone, and we are at a loss to wonder where the film goes from here. The narrative continues with the rebels and priest, and as disappointing as it is from a narrative perspective, it is telling us something about the nature of this Nazi cruelty. Experiencing them is not experiencing anything you want. That's for Indiana Jones, a needed escapist hero for our culture, someone who can fight back against all odds. But we see how impossible it is, how outnumbered, outranked, outgunned this society is. They are at the behest of weapons pointed towards their hearts at all times, and there is no mercy.