Critical Review Examines Themes of Guilt and Racism in Gianni Amelio’s “Nessun Dolore”

Nessun Dolore review – sketchy Roman fable of liberal white guilt

Venice film festival A white man’s eyes are opened to cruelty and racism when a young boy is thrust into his life in Gianni Amelio’s bold but ultimately naive drama From the heart of Rome, and broadly in an Italian tradition of sentimentalist realism, film-maker Gianni Amelio brings us a fairytale of the city, about the liberal white guilt of those who live a prosperous pain-free existence and those whom Frantz Fanon called the wretched of the earth. There is some incidental interest and the ...

By Peter Bradshaw