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De Sica
[ duh see-kuh; Italian de see-kah ]
noun
- վ·ٴ· [vi-, tawr, -ee-oh, -, tohr, -, veet-, taw, -, r, yaw], 1901–74, Italian motion-picture director, producer, and actor.
de Sica
/ de ˈsiːka /
noun
- de SicaVittorio19021974MItalianFILMS AND TV: actorFILMS AND TV: director Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Example Sentences
She won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica’s 1960 war drama “Two Women.”
She won the Academy Award for best actress for her role as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica’s 1960 war drama “Two Women.”
The film, in which Pee-wee’s cherished bike is stolen, was said to be loosely based on Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, “The Bicycle Thief.”
But when Time magazine examined the might of Italian film production in 1954, it did not put Rossellini or De Sica on the cover.
Kore-Eda has an emotionally direct style, a way of fusing naturalism and fable that recalls the neorealist magic of Vittorio De Sica.
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