Two decades after Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves, Cecilia Mangini continues to explore the theme of post-war Italy, which does not know what to do with its young generation. In her The Chant of Tiber’s Branches, Pier Paolo Pasolini—whose novel Ragazzi di Vita served as inspiration—gives voice to a grown man who looks back on his childhood in the suburbs of Rome.
