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TERESA
Starring: Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Aldo Silvani and Franco Interlenghi. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Distributors: M. G. M. Certificate: A.
Category: A.
Here is a film which will repay much thought and study. The Censor’s Certificate carries the hint that it is “more suitable for adults”. This is not a warning to prudes to keep away, but a suggestion that those who seek primarily to be painlessly and effortlessly entertained may not see all that is being put before them on the screen. It is a film for adults, that is to say, for people with grown-up minds who are able to appreciate truth and goodness and beauty though they be decked in rags and live in broken-down houses.
The story is simply told. Philip, a timorous, diffident G.I., meets Teresa, a young, naive but self-confident Italian when he is billeted on her family during the war. They marry. He
returns to New York but is afraid to tell his possessive, jealous mother about his Italian wife. When she eventually arrives, the mother does her best to separate them. Lacking self-confidence, Philip allows Teresa to leave him, but finally finds courage to begin to set up his own modest home when he hears that Teresa has borne him a son.
There is not space enough even to mention all the tantalising ideas that flow from a perusal of this film. Perhaps the most intriguing is the sense of open-air spaciousness which the camera, under the direction of William J. Miller, captures, even for the New York scenes in Central Park. Naturally, the open-air locations in Italy have that glorious atmosphere of actuality which is common to most Italian-made films, but it is rarely that one escapes from the shut-in, artificial studio environment in American films. Fred Zinnemann, the maker of the film, learnt with The Search that the special contribution which the camera can make to life is to let it at liberty among real people and places and happenings. Then it tells its story truthfully. Once set it up in an elaborately dressed studio and it can only record what is artificial.
Pier Angeli John Ericson