As someone has pointed out the quality of the print on DVD is dire, truly washed out something like third or fourth generation, but even that can't dim the lustre of this truly fine movie which, unacountably, was blasted by the critics on its release. Okay, it is fair-to-maudlin but so what, it has a great central performance by Sophia Loren that puts her up there with Garbo, Davis, Crawford, both Hepburns and that is THE pantheon if anybody asks you. One can only imagine how ravishing some of the scenes would look in anything even approaching the true colour in which they were shot and Hank Mancini lays a great theme on us which resounds even more for lack of a lyric. If it really was De Sica's swan song it's a real trumpeter swan.
Review of Sunflower
