'Journey to Italy' or — Love On The Rocks? | by Colin Edwards
The film centers on , a childless couple who travel to Italy to sell a villa inherited from a distant relative. Away from the distractions of their workaholic lives in England, they are forced to confront the growing emotional void in their eight-year marriage. Journey to Italy
( Viaggio in Italia ) is a 1954 cinematic masterpiece directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as an unhappily married English couple on a soul-searching trip to Naples. Initially a commercial failure, it was later championed by the French New Wave and is now hailed as one of the most influential works of modern cinema. Core Narrative and Themes 'Journey to Italy' or — Love On The Rocks