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The 21 pages that link to Nonprofessional actors, each with the reason it gives.

• Italian neorealismRelated: Directors often cast ordinary people to give everyday characters an unpolished presence.

• Italian NeorealismRelated: Casting nonprofessionals helped films suggest lives beyond polished star performances.

• Vittorio De SicaRelated: De Sica often cast ordinary people to give his stories a sense of lived reality.

• Roberto RosselliniRelated: Rossellini combined professional performers with nonprofessionals to heighten social texture.

• Abbas KiarostamiRelated: He often cast local people, complicating distinctions between performance and everyday behavior.

• Indian New WaveRelated: Casting outside the star system helped some films achieve a less polished, more immediate texture.

• Robert BressonRelated: Bresson called his performers models and sought gestures free from theatrical display.

• The Apu TrilogyRelated: Ray’s use of nonprofessional performers helped give the films’ domestic scenes a naturalistic quality.

• British social realismRelated: Their unpolished performances can reinforce the tradition’s everyday naturalism.

• Czechoslovak New WaveRelated: Casting nonprofessionals gave several films an unpolished, everyday texture.

• Rome, Open CityRelated: The film’s mixed casting contributes to its unpolished, socially grounded texture.

• Jafar PanahiRelated: Panahi’s use of nonprofessional performers supports naturalistic, everyday interactions.

• Jim JarmuschRelated: Jarmusch sometimes casts musicians and other nontraditional performers, lending scenes an unpolished presence.

• Jia ZhangkeRelated: Jia has used nonprofessional performers to bring local speech and lived presence into his films.

• Ken LoachRelated: Loach has cast nonprofessionals whose speech and presence bring local texture to some films.

• Tsai Ming-liangRelated: Tsai’s use of nonprofessional performers contributes to the unforced physical presence of some films.

• Au hasard BalthazarRelated: Bresson’s use of nonprofessional performers supports the film’s deliberately unembellished acting style.

• Gillo PontecorvoRelated: Pontecorvo cast residents of Algiers to strengthen the film’s local texture.

• Maurice PialatRelated: Pialat’s casting and direction sought behavior that resisted familiar screen mannerisms.

• Nadine LabakiRelated: Labaki cast nonprofessional performers in Capernaum to bring lived experience into its social drama.

• Dardenne brothersRelated: Casting outside familiar star types supports the ordinary social worlds of their films.