In the Garden

On Vittorio de Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Writing about Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage,” Greil Marcus called it “a song so brilliantly conceived, so carefully written, so indelibly arranged and sung, it made most everything that surrounded it on the radio seem faintly obscene.”

That’s how The Garden of the Finzi-Continis makes me feel about most movies…