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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]
A Film by Raffaello Matarazzo
4xDVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 06:28:57 | 5% Recovery | 16.9 GB
Languages Available: English, Italian 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English | Extra: Menù, Scene Selection
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, film critics, international festivalgoers, and other studious viewers were swept up by the tide of Italian neorealism. Meanwhile, mainstream Italian audiences were indulging in a different kind of cinema experience: the sensational, extravagant melodramas of director Raffaello Matarazzo.

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Though turning to neorealism for character types and settings, these haywire hits about splintered love affairs and broken homes, all starring mustachioed matinee idol Amedeo Nazzari and icon of feminine purity Yvonne Sanson, luxuriate in delirious plot twists and overheated religious symbolism. Four of them are collected here, chronicles of men and women on long and serpentine roads to redemption, each less restrained and more wildly fun than the last. Four-DVD Box Set Includes: Chains, Tormento, Nobody's children, The White Angel.

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Catene (1949)
Chains
A Film by Raffaello Matarazzo
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:34:31 | 5% Recovery | 4.2 GB
Languages Available: Italian 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English | Extra: Menù, Scene Selection
Genre: Drama, Crime

After years of working mostly on comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There’s a touch of noir in Chains (Catene), in which the virtuous yet earthy Yvonne Sanson, as the devoted wife of a mechanic (Amedeo Nazzari), finds herself unwillingly drawn back toward a criminal ex-lover.

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

A husband kills his wife's ex-boyfriend, who was blackmailing her. He flees to America, but is sent back to Italy to stand trial. The only way he can be set free is if his wife confesses to adultery – so the murder can be considered a crime of passion – but this estranges her from her family. Starring Amedeo Nazzari and actress of Greek origin Yvonne Sanson. Maligned by critics because it did not conform to precepts of neorealism, this did not prevent its unexpected box office success.

Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo
Writers: Aldo De Benedetti (screenplay), Nicola Manzari (screenplay)
Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi
1949, 94 minutes, Black & White, Monaural, In Italian with English subtitles, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Country Italy

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Tormento (1950)
A Film by Raffaello Matarazzo
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:37:58 | 5% Recovery | 4.24 GB
Languages Available: Italian 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English | Extra: Menù, Scene Selection
Genre: Drama

Anna (Sanson) flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover (Nazzari), an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother for support for her child.

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Living with her father and stepmother in Naples, Anna is very unhappy as her stepmother hinders her attempts to live her own life. While her parents are away, she goes out with Carlo, but finds herself locked out when she comes home. This angers Carlo and he asks Anna to go away with him to Rome, where he plans to liquidate his business assets in order to have money for marriage. He quarrels with his partner and is implicated when his partner is found murdered. Although innocent, he is convicted and given a long sentence. Anna has a child and, finding it impossible to support her child , returns to Naples. The stepmother's conditions are that before she will agree to house the child, Anna must commit herself to a reformatory for unmarried mothers

Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo
Writers: Aldo De Benedetti (screenplay), Libero Bovio (story)
Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Annibale Betrone
1950, 98 minutes, Black & White, Monaural, In Italian with English subtitles, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Country Italy

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

I Figli di Nessuno (1952)
Nobody’s Children
A Film by Raffaello Matarazzo
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:36:38 | 5% Recovery | 4.22 GB
Languages Available: Italian 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English | Extra: Menù, Scene Selection
Genre: Drama, Romance

Nobody’s Children Bursting at the seams as it is with outlandish twists and turns, Nobody’s Children (I figli del nessuno) is only the first half of Matarazzo’s supersized diptych of melodramas, which chronicles the labyrinthine misfortunes of a couple torn cruelly apart by fate (and some meddling villains). When Guido (Nazzari), a young count, falls for Luisa (Sanson), the poor daughter of one of the miners who works at his family’s quarry, his mother and her nefarious henchman scheme epically to separate the two forever.

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.

Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo
Writers: Aldo De Benedetti (screenplay), Ruggero Rindi (novel)
Stars: Yvonne Sanson, Amedeo Nazzari, Françoise Rosay
1952, 96 minutes, Black & White, Monaural, In Italian with English subtitles, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Country Italy

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

L'Angelo Bianco (1955)
The White Angel
A Film by Raffaello Matarazzo
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:40:01 | 5% Recovery | 4.23 GB
Languages Available: Italian 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English | Extra: Menù, Scene Selection
Genre: Drama

In The White Angel (L’angelo bianco), Matarazzo’s sequel to his blockbuster Nobody’s Children, the perpetually put-upon Guido and Luisa (the Italian director’s eternal star couple, Nazzari and Sanson) return for a new round of trials and tribulations. This time, the reversals of fortune are even more insanely ornate, a plot twist involving doppelgängers beats Vertigo to the punch by three years, and the whole thing climaxes with a jaw-dropping women-in-prison set piece.

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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also loses his wife and daughter in a car accident. Poor Guido is in despair, but soon he meets Lina, a woman who is a dead ringer for Luisa.

Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo
Writers: Raffaello Matarazzo (story), Giovanna Soria (story)
Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Enrica Dyrell
1955, 100 minutes, Black & White, Monaural, In Italian with English subtitles, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Country Italy




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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (2011) [The Criterion Collection]