This visually beautiful, if self-consciously arty, Italian film marks
the feature debut of Piero Messina who certainly displays all the
promise of a major film-maker if he can only learn to move things along
at a somewhat more acceptable pace and be less concerned with the 'look'
of his films and more concerned with the feelings of his characters.
This is a somewhat high-toned piece based on a play by Pirandello and
it's very much designed around the performances of Juliette Binoche as a
grieving mother and Lou de Laage as her son's girlfriend. It's
certainly well done but it also smacks of the worst kind of art-house
cinema; this is Antonioni-light. See it by all means though you may have
to keep pinching yourself from time to time to stay awake.
Saturday, 18 May 2019
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This visually beautiful, if self-consciously arty, Italian film marks
the feature debut of Piero Messina who certainly displays all the
promise of a major film-maker if he can only learn to move things along
at a somewhat more acceptable pace and be less concerned with the 'look'
of his films and more concerned with the feelings of his characters.
This is a somewhat high-toned piece based on a play by Pirandello and
it's very much designed around the performances of Juliette Binoche as a
grieving mother and Lou de Laage as her son's girlfriend. It's
certainly well done but it also smacks of the worst kind of art-house
cinema; this is Antonioni-light. See it by all means though you may have
to keep pinching yourself from time to time to stay awake.
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