Stazione Termini

I generally don't like love stories, too schmaltzy, but this film, along with Brief Encounter are my favorites. Ironically they both have train stations as important location. However, I think that their major attraction is that they are about love lost... Full review

If the fleeting vapor of your feelings carries greater sway than your commitment to family, have we got a film for you. For the low price of some mild embarrassment & the restraints of secrecy, you can throw away all sense... Full review

The film starts out beautifully, thanks to director Vittorio De Sica, and camerapersons Aldo Graziati and James Wong Howe. Jennifer Jones (as Mary Forbes) is an unhappily married woman who has been visiting her sister in Rome; there, she has... Full review

Why can't all movies be this short? DVD review.A woman (Jones) tries to end an affair with Clift but he won't let her.One of those movies that will either really impress you or won't register at all. Fast-paced romance set... Full review

Often dismissed as a failure in the film history books, this is actually an outstanding gem which deserves to be seen. I have not seen the Criterion disc, but I have seen the film twice. In a theater, it was... Full review

This is one of the most surprising movies I've seen in a very, very long time. The film's director, Vittorio DeSica is one of my very favorites and I try to watch everything of his I can. His other films... Full review

Monty Clift and Elizabeth Taylor lit up the screen in A Place in the Sun with their performances. My belief is that David O. Selznick thought that with his wife Jennifer Jones opposite Clift, some of the magic from that... Full review

An American married woman (Jennifer Jones) visited Rome and while being there got a relationship with another young man (Monty Clift). One day she decided to go back to USA going first by train to Paris. At the Terminal railroad... Full review

Like fine wine, "Stazione Termini" seems to grow better and better with age. Generally "written off" as a lesser De Sica work, this film offers two beautiful performances by Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift. The two, with different types of... Full review

Coming after "ladri di biciclette"(1946)"miracolo a Milano"(1950) and the absorbing and rather unrecognized "Umberto D"(probably De Sica's masterpiece,1952),"Stazione Termini" cannot be put on a par with these former works.It is an interesting effort though.Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones are par... Full review

It's not that Terminal Station is a great movie. The intensity of their acting and the beauty of the cinematography help to offset the triteness of the dialogue, but it can't help the confusion of the overall conception. ... Full Review

Even in the original version Statzione Termini doesn't rank as highly as De Sirca's best films: Shoe-Shine , The Bicycle Thief , and Umberto D. But the film is truly memorable. Still, Mary obviously loves (or lusts for) him, and her quandary forms the dramatic tension throughout the 90 minutes we wait at Rome's Stazione Termini. ... Full Review