BELLISSIMA (1951) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Mitchell's Ice Cream

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A working class mother (Anna Magnani) tries to push her seven-year-old daughter into the movie industry. [Click here for an excellent two-minute review of the film including many short clips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlG49mDJUmI) “makes you laugh, cry, and cringe, sometimes all simultaneously” – [Film Inquiry](https://www.filminquiry.com/bellissima-1951-review/) “A wonderful send-up of the Italian film industry and the illusions that it fosters, delineated in near-epic proportions with style and brio” – [Chicago Reader](https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/bellissima/) [Rotten Tomatoes:](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1054231-bellissima) 83% (Audience 88%) ========================================================================== 3:00 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid). AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, a few doors past Lee's Seafood Boil, in the alley parallel to Euclid, directly across 116th Street from the Cleveland Institute of Art. ========================================================================== **HELP CHIP IN:** [Meetup.com](http://Meetup.com) charges our group for use of this site. Please contribute $5-10 annually to help defray this and other costs. Any surplus is given to the Cleveland Cinematheque. **CashApp** $JimSimler **Zelle** jimsimler@hotmail.com **Venmo** jim-simler **PayPal** [Jim Simler's page](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jimsimler) **In Person** Pay your event organizer **Venmo** jim-simler **PayPal** [Jim Simler's page](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jimsimler)