The Wide Blue Road

The Wide Blue Road (1957) starring Yves Montand, Alida Valli. An Italian fisherman (Montand) persists in the practice of dynamite fishing, even though it is against the law and the other villagers don't approve of it. This movie is a lovely slice-of-life style flick in which the lives of the people in an isolated Italian fishing village are portrayed. The focus is on Montand and his family -- his wife Rosetta (Valli), his beautiful  daughter Diana and his two young sons, whom he takes with him when he goes fishing. It's shot in expressive color, and the photography is striking. I really got absorbed in this movie, and found it highly entertaining -- even though it ends tragically. (In Italian, with English subtitles.) Grade: A-