Saw
Stromboli,(1949) starring Ingrid Bergman, as part of
MoMA's series of films by Italian director
Roberto Rossellini. Bergman's character Karen is presented as an austere Lithuanian Protestant, displaced by the war and living in a refugee camp, who marries an Italian soldier to escape the camp.He then takes her to his home island,
Stromboli, a volcanic island. There is the inevitable clash of religions and cultures, Bergman rejects any ideas of the Catholic Spirit, or it's paraphernalia, until she is in total despair and cries out to a god, that of course doesn't answer.
Humanity is shown as being part of nature's cruel cycles, there's an amazing tuna fishing scene, where huge tuna are barbed and pulled alive thrashing from the water, and another where Stromboli rains down volcanic rocks and sends it's inhabitants in fishing boats out to sea.
The poster's a little strange, doesn't really reflect the movie at all, incorrectly squashed into 'formula' , romance! action! for the American market, Hollywood only knows a certain type of movie, Bergman getting the star treatment.
It was the most awesome movie, hope to catch many more in the series.
Today, November 30, Scots Celebrate the day of their patron saint, St Andrew. Andrew, born a Jew by the sea of Galilee, was a disciple of John the Baptist, then of Christ. in the 10C, his remains were brought to what was then a Pict settlement, where the current township of St Andrews stands.
