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Today's NYTimes Best Film was Luchino Visconti's

Terra trema: Episodio del mare, La / The World Trembles (1948)

In a way, the film is a stunt, if a successful one.

An entire Sicilian fishing village is enlisted as actors to tell a simple story of their life.

A rebel tries to beat the system and loses.

The story is less important than the scenes of daily life and the little sub-dramas that support the main story.

The 'acting' is quite good. And the cinematography (b&w) is gorgeous.

I was held pretty close to it as it all unwound.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

It loses a point for being too long and having an annoying 'narrator' who, at times, even tells us what is happening when it is obvious.