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Bitter Rice

(Riso amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949, Italy)

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A woman stands looking at a man, behind them many people are leaving a train boxcar.
Jul 16, 2026 7:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

$8 members
$12 general public
$9 adults 55 and over
Free for students

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Straddling the line between earthy melodrama and neorealism, Bitter Rice is one of the key films in Italian film history.

Bitter Rice follows Silvana (Silvana Mangano) and Francesca (Doris Dowling) through the rice paddy fields of Northern Italy’s Po Valley. They are just two of the many underpaid and overworked women hired to work the upcoming harvest, but only Francesca is on the run from the law after stealing a necklace with her boyfriend Walter (Vittorio Gassman). When Walter arrives intent on stealing the harvest, the story quickly turns from social realism into a crime film with a love triangle at the center. In Italian with English subtitles. (109 mins., 4K DCP)

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Bitter Rice, courtesy of Janus Films.

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Bitter Rice

Jul 16, 2026 7:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

$8 members
$12 general public
$9 adults 55 and over
Free for students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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