"The Garden of the Finzi Continis"

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The neo-realist film "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" (Vittorio de Sica, 1970) based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Giorgio Bassani, is the story of a Jewish young man, Giorgio, living in Ferrara, near Bologna, in Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. This paper discusses how, stylistically, the film contains many but not all essential elements of Italian neo-realism.

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" Within The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, the main character Giorgio has been in love since childhood with beautiful, wealthy Micol Finzi-Contini, who lives in a walled family estate that contains a huge, beautiful Eden-like garden. The appearance and atmosphere of the Finzi-Contini estate and garden seem like heaven on earth, especially compared to the chaotic, anxious, increasingly dangerous outside streets of Ferrara. The Finzi-Continis, like Giorgio's family, are assimilated Jews, although, according to Giorgio's protective, disapproving father, the Finzi-Continis wear their Jewish identity too lightly, and "don't even seem Jewish." Still the action focuses on Giorgio's determined but ill-fated quest to win the heart of Micol."

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