Saturday | August 29, 2015 9:15 pm

Who is Without Sin
(Chi è senza peccato…)

Screening on Film

Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo.
With Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Françoise Rosay.
Italy, 1952, 35mm, black & white, 118 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

Matarazzo here adopts the 19th century French novel Geneviève, about an orphaned servant girl who renounces her own chances at happiness in order to support her younger sister.While Matarazzo’s films were popular in the 1950s, their operatic approach to melodrama hampered their critical success. After Matarazzo’s death in 1966, the situation reversed; his style of melodrama had long since passed out of public favor, but—much like the rediscovery of Douglas Sirk in the 1970s—critics began to rediscover and embrace Matarazzo’s work.