Allied Artists
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Home Vision Entertainment)
A woman slaves away at her factory job while her husband recovers from an injury at home. Her mother-in-law also lives with them but seems incapable of making even the smallest decision. Fed up, and falling sick, she gets a check up and is sent to a mountain retreat to recuperate. She gladly accepts the opportunity to get away from it all. At the retreat, she meets a variety of other "patients", some very sick, others not so much, all complaining about their real lives. She recognizes a man she met earlier and they begin a timid romance. Eventually she is "cured" and returns to her dreary home life, apparently to carry on as before. One of De Sica's last films (he would direct only one more after this), is a slow paced, rather dreary affair, lacking any kind of spark to elevate it much above its melodramatic plot.
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