BELLISSIMA (1951) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Mitchell's Ice Cream

A working class mother (Anna Magnani) tries to push her seven-year-old daughter into the movie industry.

Click here for an excellent two-minute review of the film including many short clips

“makes you laugh, cry, and cringe, sometimes all simultaneously” – Film Inquiry

“A wonderful send-up of the Italian film industry and the illusions that it fosters, delineated in near-epic proportions with style and brio” – Chicago Reader

Rotten Tomatoes: 83% (Audience 88%)

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3:00 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland

Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid).

AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, a few doors past Lee's Seafood Boil, in the alley parallel to Euclid, directly across 116th Street from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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