My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Anna Magnani stars in two stories connected only in theme. In the first, she has a phone conversation with a lover who is leaving her. She cries a lot, threatens suicide but eventually accepts it. There is no back story, and without context it is difficult to empathize with her situation. The second story is marginally better. Magnani is a goat herder who stumbles upon a man she believes is St. Joseph, played by Federico Fellini. He never says a word, but offers her plenty of wine, and possibly impregnates her, although she blacks out and can't remember a thing. She prefers to believe she has become "immaculately" conceived and is carrying the second coming of Jesus. The other peasants mock her, so she goes to a remote church to have the child.
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