from Africa to America - Film # 3
Academy Award Winner for Best International Feature Film: 1950
A story of a doomed love affair and Italian neorealism don’t appear to have much in common. Yet The Walls of Malapaga proves itself capable of summoning the sense of desperation that draws toward such films.
The film makes no claims of being in conversation with the movement made famous by De Sica, Rossellini, et al. Yet when Pierre (Jean Gabin) tells Marta…