Roma Città Aperta (“Rome Open City”), 1945, is one of the most representative movies of the Italian Neo-Realist Era. It won the 1947 Academy Award as best foreign language movie. All the most important cast and crew was involved:
Roberto Rossellini (movie director), Renzo Rossellini (music composer), Anna Magnani (protagonist actress, who won the Academy Award for this role), and many other.
After watching the movie (with English subs, provided by MGA through Kanopy here: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/112947?vp=mga), please write a min 250 – max 500 word reflection about the music soundtrack. How does music work, compared to the other movies we analyzed? What role, if any, do both folk music and popular music have in the understanding of the story? Always remember to add your own personal point of view and to not only provide a summary or description of the movie.
Besides the documents already uploaded in the last weeks and your own research, please consider reading this short essay as a reference: https://ces.ufl.edu/files/CES-Roma-citta-aperta.pdf.
