Filme do Dia: Der Traum des Bildhauers (1907), Johann Schwarzer

As with Chaplin, love is always the moment of truth for Rossellini, always sincere and ingenous; but unlike Chaplin, Rossellini's poetry is never studied, and the "acting" in such scenes [episode Sicily in Paisà] often seems "bad"

(Tag Gallegher, The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini, p. 188)