Anders Edström

Text: C.W. Win­ter, 2015 Rough­ly thir­ty-one and half minu­tes into Vitto­rio De Sica’s Umber­to D. (1952), a dis­pi­ri­ted pen­sio­ner, fin­ding hims­elf down to his last lire against a back­drop of eco­no­mic austeri­ty, calls an ambu­lan­ce and feig­ns ill­ness so that he might brief­ly stay in a hos­pi­tal in order to get a more com­for­ta­ble bed, even the tem­po­ra­ry suc­cor of…