![]() ![]() In Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend, the narrator, a writer whose best friend has committed suicide, takes the friend’s now ownerless Great Dane into her 500-square-foot New York City apartment. ![]() The idea of seeing it, as 60 looms, is unthinkable. Seeing it at 20 was like having fears I never entertained, fears of being old, destitute, and alone. I have never been so wiped out by a movie. is the work in which De Sica took his genius for melting the distance between the audience and the people on screen as far as it could go. ![]() The story of a proud and impoverished pensioner evicted from his rooming house along with his beloved dog, Umberto D. THE ONLY GREAT MOVIE I have no intention of ever seeing again is Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. ![]()
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