Umberto D.
- This is a past program
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Animalia. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
To the Unknown (2017)
While reading Kenneth Koch’s metaphysical poem “To the Unknown,” Michael Almereyda weaves together everyday images of movement — people waiting for food, playing in a park, a sky — while focusing on a cat walking around, as best it can.
Digital file, color, 6 min. Director: Michael Almereyda.
Umberto D. (1952)
On the surface, Umberto D. is a simple story of an older gentleman trying to pay his rent, accompanied by his dog, Flike, in postwar Italy. As Umberto tries to cobble together just enough money until his next pension check, he is met with no real solution, stuck in a limbo that magnifies his old age and pending poverty. Hailed as a masterpiece of neorealist cinema, Vittorio De Sica’s film becomes an emotionally devastating story of losing one's dignity, while trying to simply get by. Here, the relationship with Flike becomes all the more emotional as it provides the only caring, sentimental and hopeful relationship that Umberto has left.
35mm, b&w, 89 min. Director: Vittorio De Sica. Writer: Cesare Zavattini. With: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio.
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