📽️ Arte is streaming classic postwar Italian cinema at the moment. I watched “Bellissima,” dir. Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1951), and starring the brilliant Anna Magnani. (See Pat Kewly’s review in PopMatters for a good overview.)

Anna Magnani as a mother on the right, her small daughter next to her, at a screen test with lots of other hopeful mothers and daughters, as well as set staff.