Republished to coincide with the release of the film version of Sigrid Nuñez’s novel The Friend, this piece originally appeared in March 2018 in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
THE ONLY GREAT MOVIE I have no intention of ever seeing again is Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. The story of a proud and impoverished pensioner evicted from his rooming house alon…
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