The views of the post-war Italian government of the time were also far from positive, and the remark of Giulio Andreotti, who was then a vice-minister in the De Gasperi cabinet, characterized the official view of the movement: Neorealism is "dirty laundry that shouldn't be washed and hung to dry in the open".
Os puntos de vista dos gobernos italianos da posguerra tamén eran máis que positivos, e a frase de Giulio Andreotti, viceministro do goberno de Alcide De Gasperi definiu a opinión oficial sobre o movemento: O neorrealismo é "unha lavandaría sucia que non debería ser limpada e tendida ao aire libre."