family struggle

De Sica captured the quiet dignity and resilience of ordinary people facing systemic poverty.

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' intimately explore fractured families, economic hardship, and the bonds that form across unconventional family structures.

His socially conscious cinema consistently examines working-class families struggling against systemic poverty and injustice, as seen in 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes'.