Reviews

No way, Arrivederci Amore Ciao is the best Italian Thriller released in the last 30 years! It's perfect, taken from a very good novel written by Massimo Carlotto, directed by Michele Soavi, who made horror movies like Dellamorte Dellamore(Cemetery Man)and La Chiesa(The Church), this movie takes your attention up from the beginning till the end. There's no hope of redemption in the screenplay, there's no hope of being a better man. The main character, played by Alessio Boni, who is as awful as always in the acting, but absolutely perfect for the role, is a former terrorist that wants to have a respectable middle class life after years of escape in South America. But if he really wants it, he's got to be ready to do everything, to betray the former comrades, to kill everyone! Michele Placido, director of the still good Romanzo Criminale(Crime Novel), in the role of the corrupted cop is incredible, perfect! I repeat: a fantastic movie, terrifying!At the end of it, I saw people desperately crying in the cinema...If you're going to see it, you'll understand why. Welcome Back to the cinema, Michele Soavi!!! This is the real good New Italian Cinema! These(Arrivederci, Romanzo Criminale, Occhi di Cristallo) are the movies Italy has got to show the world! Go and see it now, if you can.

Well, yesterday night I went to see the ultra-highly anticipated new Benigni's movie. La Tigre e La Neve is nice...just nice, not more. Shot with a very big budget and some co-stars, Tom Waits that plays the small role of a singer and a very good Jean Reno that speaks Italian all movie long, La Tigre e La Neve has got too many limits, in the screen writing and in the acting. The story is too superficial, love, poetry, trying to take people to commotion...but I found no commotion, not a huge of feelings, only good acting from the star, even if he's so far from his past masterworks, and some funny moments. Nicola Piovani's music is boring and boring, but the song written and played by Tom Waits is OK. The worst thing in the movie, as usual, is Nicoletta Braschi. Why does she keep trying to act? Something else to do in life? No? She's Benigni's wife, and that's the only reason I can find for her embarrassing presence in EVERY MOVIE he releases.Of course, this movie is going to become a blockbuster here in Italy and I think it could do very well in other territories. But please, don't call it a masterpiece!!!!! It's just a nice movie...better than the megalomaniac Pinocchio but nothing more.

To Deny our past, sometimes means to be ashamed of it. In Marychase's words, I can find only a feeling like this. As in my home country, Italy, in these years a lot of people try to deny the atrocities of Mussolini's dictatorship, I can see that in Argentina there are people that don't trust the slaughters committed by their military government during the seventies. This movie is poetic, sad, tragic but, I think, is very close to the truth. It's a movie, of course, with a plot, screenplay,...in a movie you can't necessarily see the whole story of a class of students. But what you see in it is something strong, hard and...unbelievable. And that's for some people don't want to believe it. Don't want to accept it. But it was true, sadly... And another shame regarding this movie is that's very hard to find it on DVD!!!