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Cinema Paradiso -
New version
1988 -
Italy /
France
- 174 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast:
Philippe Noiret,
Salvatore Cascio,
Marco Leonardi,
Antonella Attili,
Jacques Perrin,
Agnese Nano
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: Italian
/ Sub. in English. R
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por (rent it for): $3.77
(dos días - two days)
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Sinopsis
Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at the
movies and the affect it has on a young boy who grows up in and around the
title village movie theater in this Italian comedy-drama that is based on the
life and times of screenwriter/director
Giuseppe
Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Sicilian mother pines for
her estranged son, who left many years ago and has since become a prominent
Roman movie director who has taken too literally the advice of his mentor. He
finally returns to his home village to attend the funeral of the town's former
film projectionist and in so doing embarks upon a journey into his boyhood
just after WW II when he became the unofficial son of the town projectionist.
In the dark confines of the
Cinema Paradiso,
the boy and the other townsfolk come to escape from the grim realities of
post-war Italy. The town censor is also there to insure that while people have
a good time, they do not get aroused by movie scenes. He invariably insists
that all kissing scenes be edited out. Still the boy Salvatore learns much
about life and love. One day, he learns about courage when the projectionist's
latest scheme goes terribly awry and the volatile silver nitrate filmstock
erupts into a violent fire that blinds the projectionist. Fortunately, brave
Salvatore saves his friend's life and then becomes the new projectionist. The
years pass and he grows up to fall in love with a beautiful girl who breaks
his heart after he is inducted into the military. She is gone by the time he
returns and soon afterward he leaves the village again. That was all thirty
years ago and now Salvatore has come to say his final good-bye to his
life-long friend, who has left him a little gift in a film can. Taking it to
the soon-to-be demolished Cinema Paradiso, Salvatore watches it and suddenly
finds everything in his life made crystal clear. In 2002, over a decade after
the film's original release,
Tornatore
brought the original 170 minute director's cut to American screens for the
first time.
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