Cinema Paradiso
CINEMA PARADISO (NUEVO CINEMA
PARADISO)Â (PG)
D:Â Giuseppe Tornatore
Ariane/TFI/RAI-TRE/Forum (Franco Cristaldi)
Italy/France 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 1988 (released 1989)
123 mins
Comedy/Drama
W:Â Giuseppe Tornatore
DP: Blasco Giurato
Ed: Mario Mora
Mus:Â Ennio Morricone & Andrea
Morricone
PD: Andrea Cristani
Cos: Beatrice Bordone
Jacques Perrin (Salvatore di Vita), Philippe
Noiret (Alfredo), Salvatore Cascio (Salvatore as a child), Marco Leonardi (Salvatore as a teenager)
The Guardian newspaper voted this their favourite film of the
1980's and it's quite understandable why. It's a sweet, sentimental nostalgia fable about a young boy who grows up helping the cinema projectionist at his small villages cinema and the friendship
they form from the late 1930's onwards.
At two & a half hours, this is a long slog of a foreign
language film to get through, but it ticks by quite nicely due to a good screenplay, great performances and a beautiful music score by Ennio Morricone.
A
love letter to classic film and a must watch for film buffs.
8/10
