Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs]

"This box set - the 27th volume of The Criterion Collection's Eclipse series of rare and unknown films - turns to four baroque, operatic melodramas helmed by the Italian director Raffaello Matarazzo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The films featured herein borrowed character types and situations from neorealismo but stood at the opposite end of the stylistic spectrum. The collection begins with Chains (1949), about an upstanding Italian housewife whose world is turned upside down by the ...