In 1945, she fell in love with director Roberto Rossellini while working on "Roma, Città Aperta" aka "Rome, Open City" (1945). "I thought at last I had found the ideal man... had lost a son of his own and I felt we understood each other. Above all, we had the same artistic conceptions." Rossellini had become violent, volatile and possessive, and they argued constantly about films or out of jealousy. "In fits of rage they threw crockery at each other." As artists, however, they complemented each other well while working on neorealist films. The two finally split apart when Rossellini fell in love with and married Ingrid Bergman.