Evening star., 1949-03-06
Reporter Rosselini
DAVIS Most Dramatic Journalist Writes
With Movie Camera
By Joy Cormody

It's the nature of his business that Rosselini
not produce brilliantly human sceenpay every time he tries
Beng human possibility of errng exists for Rossen
else Even shakespeare works are notorousy
uneven.
producer has proved himself international spebnde
pictures greeted by critics and the public alike as not mere
"mlsts" absolute muss"
This not because Rosselnis fauess
little diminished by these faults that it
actually fascination in the mans genius.
of Rosseins genius be interpreted
there critics in the Interpretation trade
Rossen a Great Reporter.
deensible of these interpretations that
the man is the greatest reporter of his time only
great writer instead Of typewriter but he is
blessed with the sarpe of repeoral for the great
story of the moment what happening life.
On the surface denomnator of Rossens films
is the with the distinction that his common man
is all living violent, terrifying world.
Although open and "Paisan screenplay in
setting they pictures And although both have
sharp excellent photography which makes of the
they art pictures They more universal
both of these in that they reach for the very
heart of contemporary experience to discover the dramatic ea
tionships of human beings.
The question Rossein trying reduced its
How is it with people?
question could be calculated to arouse the interest
of people in mans film.
Finds All Life Dramatic.
Rossenis answer open City" is that it
bitter ironically amusing unquahedly tragic but
above all is dramatic His approach to the revelation OF It's
drama sensitive and compassionate 1t is an inclusive com
passion felt for the peasant girl and the bewdered G1
in Sicily and for the 'hin ana coored military policeman in
sharply than for the intellectual arlstocats
defense of Forences richest
suburbs In the of Rosseni and his camera all men nave
equality they melt into composite character
Identity themselves
If there better Of pinpolntng humanlys story
today should be making pictures to
Rosselnis Certainly else is competing with
him in his particular field.
by fnctoning reporter, Journalist that Ros-
himself obligations which limit the
tional daast He tell stories story in
he does Pasan without responsibility to the
unity He these stories in
he with necessity decide their relative
values balance them for contrast in mood.
denied the argument
that "Paisan" is less than screen masterpiece.
Talked About Movie.
Rosseni latest picture which has for in New York
stop talking about They
most dramatic the entertaining the least likely to succeed
has achieved
which there the greatest agreement logically
the weakest of the stories
Florence who seek
lover who leader fight
the Rosselni
able disguise the synthetic of this
ticular narrative.
the fashion which he avoids in the other
the this single conspicuous
slip in "Paisan.'
could of vgnete than Rosselini inects
into his between the CT girl Sicily the
of the urcn Negro soldier Naples
the btersweet episode of the soldier and beautiful native girl in
Rome the CT chapns visit mountain monastery the final
incident of parsans who die the marshes
of the Pc River.
In these five episodes the has found
whose dramatic eloquence approaches that of Rossen