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Sunflower

Movie · 1970 · 107 min

A sweeping, sorrowful romance that lingers on longing and loss, moving slowly through sunlit fields and grey trains toward a quiet, aching heartbreak.

About
1970 film by Vittorio De Sica
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Class
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Year
1970
Runtime
107 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • war
  • grief
  • loyalty
  • fate
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance8
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama, melodrama
Directed by
Vittorio De Sica
Written by
Cesare Zavattini, Tonino Guerra, Georgi Mdivani
Starring
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva, Glauco Onorato, Anna Carena, Alla Budnitskaya, Germano Longo, Silvano Tranquilli
Music
Henry Mancini
Cinematography
Giuseppe Rotunno
Runtime
107 min
Country
Italy, France, Soviet Union
Languages
Italian, Russian

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