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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305914921
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305914923
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Delta
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 69657
Studio: Delta
Theatrical Release Date: May 09, 1961
Editorial Review:
Description:
Loren won a Best Actress Oscar — the first to a non–American actress in a foreign language film — for this film. She plays a young widow in 1943 Italy who leaves San Lorenzo, fleeing Allied bombing to return to her native village. But this is only the beginning of a trail marked with tragedy.
Includes an intro by Tony Curtis and the trailer for Sophia Loren’s film, 'Operation Crossbow.'
B&W/110 min.
Amazon.com essential video:
Sophia Loren won a much-deserved Academy Award for her performance in this 1960 classic by neo-realist filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. A last-minute substitute for Anna Magnani, Loren reached deep within her own memories of wartime experiences for her portrait of a widow struggling to survive in battle-scarred Italy along with a teenage daughter (Eleonora Brown). The film begins with both women sharing romantic feelings toward a young man (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a story line disrupted by the ravages of World War II and the horrifying rape of both mother and daughter in a church by Allied Moroccan soldiers. The aftermath of this atrocity finds both characters dealing with even more, varying shades of grief, as the war seems to sap all that they had treasured and leaves them with only the bare bones of their emotional and physical survival. De Sica's capacity to render tragedy both with the starkest of strokes and the most delicate of emotions has never been more impressive than in this film, and Loren's shatteringly honest portrayal is a watershed in movie history. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Powerful.
Two Women starring Sophia Loren is a explosive foreign language film. Loren proves she's more than a sexy woman, she won an Oscar for best actress for this movie. The transfer is my only gripe, the tracking is horrible. The subtitles and story are easy to understand. This film has a rape scene but nothing is shown, powerful and raw drama. I highly recommend it.
Rating:  - Two Women DVD Movie
I bought this for my wife and she loves it. Oldie but goodie movie - and yes, a tear jerker.
Rating: - Why, oh WHY!???
Why, oh why is the vast majority of Sophia Loren's Italian movies so cheaply & poorly made? A few have been 're-mastered' but one cannot find
a decent copy of "Two Women", WHICH, I might add, was shown on TCM the other night in Italian w/subtitles, widescreen, beautiful copy!!! Why can't WE buy this???? Is ANYONE listening. Sophia is too talented and beautiful to have her 'native' films languish. She is a LIVING LEGEND!!!
Rating:  - Two Women
An excellent film with a great performance by Loren. However, this print is terrible. I would not recommend purchasing this edition.
Rating: - Rated for the acting, not the quality of the DVD
This is one,powerful film! Sophia Loren delivers the performance that indeed is a watershed of emotions on film.
As other reviewers have said, the character development is extremely well done, and by the time the movie is half over, I felt the drama was realistic, not overly done at all. The bond between mother and daughter is sensitive, caring...all the right stuff.
Loren's acting in this piece was waaaay ahead of it's time, and treats a theme that is now 'chic' in current cinema ... Read More
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