by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job.
characteristics
- Dying Young
- Politics
- Romantic
- Star-crossed-lovers
- Terminal-illness
- Tragic-love
- Romance
- Pollution
- Love
- Marriage
- Factory-worker
- Incurable-disease
