However, "The New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther praised it. On its initial release, the movie earned less than $13,000 in Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini said that it was "among the most beautiful in Italian cinema" and Andrew Sarris ranked it eighth on his ten-best film list. François Truffaut called it "the most beautiful film in the world." Although somewhat poorly received at the time, the film is now recognized as a classic of world cinema. It has been released on DVD by The Criterion Collection and Masters of Cinema. In 1995, the Vatican listed the film as one of the forty-five greatest films ever made.