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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0056775005696
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Madacy Records
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Madacy Records
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 30, 1998
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 28619
Studio: Madacy Records
Theatrical Release Date: May 09, 1961
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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:  - 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 - the ravages of war.
Where other films might glamorize the topic, this one went all the way in realism. And for that it is an uneasy view.
By the end of the film, one feels completely spent and exhausted.
Warning: Not your 'easy Saturday night light viewing'.
Rating: - an unwatchable transfer
I checked this Madacy Entertainment release of Two Women out from the public library. THANK GOD I didn't waste any money on it. This release is just horrible: The transfer is blurry, the sound is poor, the titles are blurry. I jumped ahead a few scenes to see if it was this way throughout the film. Yes, it looks that way. don't waste your time or money.
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