Amore (1948)

• 73%
• 1948
• Drama
• Anna Magnani
• Federico Fellini
• Peparuolo

In part one, The Human Voice, a woman alone speaks on the telephone to her lover, who has broken off the affair to marry someone else. He calls her several times in one night: he lies, she apologizes, she takes the blame", she weeps, she pleads, she asks a favor. Her pain and verzweiflung drive the simple story. In part two, The Miracle, a homeless woman believes that a man she encounters on a hillside is Saint Joseph; he takes advantage of her. When she discovers she is pregnant, she knows it ' s a miracle. Other villagers mock her, and she has the baby alone, near a locked church in the straw of a goat shed.