Articles tagged "italian-neorealism"
Death of a Cyclist
Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem
Spain | 1955
What will be remembered most by viewers is the way the film jump-cuts effortlessly between the seemingly primary melodrama and scenes of so-called ‘social realism’. At first the cuts are employed between bourgeois and working-class milieus, but later more abstract associations will be made. Our pair of privileged sinners lie totally outside of ‘social reality’: when their sports-car hits the cyclist we do not see his twisted frame, only the twisted frame of the bicycle, and the reactions of Juan and María José.