This event is in the past.It took place on May 21, 2026 at Film Forum.
Drama Film
Drama FilmAnna Magnani plays a working-class mother desperate to make her daughter a star in this sharp, funny 1951 satire of the Italian film industry and the illusions it sells. Now in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.
1950s Italian cinema
Anna Magnani
satirical comedy
4K restoration
Tips
🎬"Perhaps the most unjustly neglected of Luchino Visconti's early films" (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
👩👧"the only Visconti movie where a maternal relationship takes center stage" (Harvard Film Archive)
🍿popcorn made with real peanut oil
Luchino Visconti’s BELLISSIMA
Hudson Square
Drama FilmDrama FilmAnna Magnani plays a working-class mother desperate to make her daughter a star in this sharp, funny 1951 satire of the Italian film industry and the illusions it sells. Now in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.
1950s Italian cinema
Anna Magnani
satirical comedy
4K restoration
Tips
🎬"Perhaps the most unjustly neglected of Luchino Visconti's early films" (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
👩👧"the only Visconti movie where a maternal relationship takes center stage" (Harvard Film Archive)
🍿popcorn made with real peanut oil
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