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Staying Alive

Tony Manero, an aspiring Italian-American dancer, it was moved from Brooklyn, where he was born in Manhattan in the hope of finally undertake a professional career on Broadway. He lives in a studio and makes his living doing the dance teacher and a waiter in a nightclub. E 'engaged to Jackie, with which it shares the same passion for dance and with which it presents to all the auditions in New York. The good opportunity presents itself when, for a sample of Jackie, she meets the English dancer Laura. Tony seduces her and the two spend the night together. Confident that the friendship with the influential dancer could get him an engagement, regardless of the reaction of Jackie, tries to woo her, even though Laura consider it an adventure for one night only. Between the two of them establishing a relationship between high and low, without ambition and mutual self-interest in which they are trying used each other to reach their goals.

Meanwhile Broadway auditions are the dancers for a new production, Satan's Alley. Jackie and Tony are chosen from among the dancers of the second row, while Laura gets the protagonist. Laura is Tony with snobbery and indifference, all taken from his vantage point, and the boy realizes what has been used by that woman and what has hurt his girlfriend with his behavior. In
Tony triggered something, a desire for revenge and redemption, and seeks in every way to get the part of the male protagonist of the show. But his style is still too crude and instinctive for those responsible for the ballet, then pray Jackie to teach him the technique of dance, practicing late into the night with her.
Tony gets the part and begin testing with Laura. The woman is disgusted by the fact of having to dance with him, completely unknown, but together create a formidable pair.

arrived on opening night. Tony is in seventh heaven: his dream is coming true.
Laura and Tony dance well together and in an unexpected boost from the ballet, Tony kisses her, but she does not approve and they scratch beneath one eye.
Despite the injury and the anger that's boiling inside, Tony continues ballet, improvisation and choreography to the best of itself with energy and vigor that overshadow the rest of the cast, until the end. It 'a success.
The lights go out, the wounds will heal and the world is there behind that door, ready for Tony Manero ...

THE FILM
Staying Alive released after six years Saturday Night Fever and the story focuses on the charismatic character of Tony Manero .
abandoned the neighborhood in Brooklyn, Manero evolves and seriously focus on dance, a lifelong passion. But the will alone is not enough: we need to work, technical and sweat. All the things that Tony top seems not to be considered, believing that his talent is enough instinctive and his cheek to make way. But experience shows the height Laura will make him understand that we must work to break a lot about yourself and lower your head, because it is only then that the great talents come to the top.
Sylvester Stallone manufactures one of his greatest successes as a director, producer and writer in this 1983 film. Light years away from Rambo and Rocky Balboa, Stallone takes the character of Tony Manero, the drifter from Brooklyn and all hard rocking, resize and bringing in a completely different environment, in which Tony is looking for a ransom and a staff professional maturity it can take up, which could save him from a state of mediocrity and discontent. The choice of
John Travolta was very good idea, thanks to his physique and his skills as a dancer as required by the character, and decreed the success as not happened since the days of Grease .

Staying Alive is not a real musical, Grease is not nor Chicago, but it summarizes the essence of the show business: ambition to sacrifice, from the frustration of failure intoxication the success achieved, but pointed out how hard and difficult road to get there, despite the "shortcuts". A world
treacherous and blinding but Stallone does not fail to fill the good feelings and sentimental trimmings.
There is not much philosophy, neither bite nor a 'deep analysis of the psychological aspect of the characters. The acting of the actors is not quite excellent, but to make the film runs and engages, through a fluid script and the actors in so far as you can not see a vintage John Travolta ...
A special mention must go to the original soundtrack, real engine of the film. Signed by the Bee Gees , pioneers of the disc at the turn of the '70s and '80s, the film takes its title from its single Staying Alive that can be heard during the end credits. A curiosity: Stallone reserves al'inizio almost a glimpse of the film, as a passerby bumped accidentally by Manero down the road. The Hitchcock cameo (?).


THE CAST The cast is not among the most popular, partly because Travolta aside, all other players have done great things after this film.

John Travolta is Tony Manero .
Travolta had already played Tony Manero in the film by Badham The Saturday Night Fever (Saturday Night Fever) in 1977. Then it was almost unknown, but in Staying Alive, released six years later, he managed to pull the film thanks to the success in previous Grease . This was followed by years of neglect, in which John was unable to have more a part that fit, up to the lucky with Tarantino in 1994 (Pulp Fiction). His
Tony Manero is the typical bully in the suburbs, crude and arrogant, but Staying Alive grows and evolves, taking advantage of his talent. Not his best test of an actor, but you must recognize a remarkable physical prowess and a ...

Other performers are: Cynthia Rhodes in the role of Jackie and Finola Hughes in those Laura . In a small Frank Stallone is also stated in part (singer, brother of Sylvester).

I like to revisit this film, although now influenced by the time I have seen and reviewed dozens of times and each time can get involved, although now I know it by heart. Do not expect anything special, nor on the artistic nor is the recitative, but it offers a spectacle of pure entertainment, without worries and without suspense, for a night without worry.

When I see this film , I'm thinking just to the Friends, the show's DeFilippo, not only for the column sound of the opening credits, that is precisely what has taken stands for Friends, but the meaning that this film (I hope) to have inspired the authors of the talent show.
A film of good feelings that transmits in its own way of principles, namely that nothing is given away, but that to reach the top must sweat, work hard and do not fall in the early hardships. All things that maybe today pays little attention to other less tangible values \u200b\u200bsuch as breasts, buttocks and silicone ...

I will not elaborate further on the performances of the actors, because in truth there's not much to say, but all in all, comparing with some recent Hollywood productions can now Travolta could also catch an Oscar ...
What are the strengths then? The "normal" characters: when people can recognize you, where you can find a part of you and your own ambition or the difficulties of everyday life. There are no heroes, there are misunderstood geniuses, but really want to do it, go out and make something of anonymity, because of your own strength and your talent. How not to get blinded by the physical statue of a semi-god like Travolta in action in the ballet Satan's Alley?
The choice is yours ...

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RadioStar PUT TO THE TEST FROM CHILDREN ...

Double birthday party Saturday, January 29th in Busselton for the radio station, the animation of a working party are quite extraordinary, but fun at the most. Lara (mother) and Julia (daughter) celebrated birthdays and nothing like the license plate music radio station. Tested by a large swarm of fans under 11, the quintet led by the hand of stubborn uncle Lorenzo the "singers" were fumbling in the shape, and we can not avoid saying that we enjoyed like crazy. Among musical games, dances, jokes and greeting cards, the party is over, after a series of crisp crackling and ... moments of music and entertainment. Who would have said that despite four years and a half parties behind them, were their children to give us that satisfaction? Among balloons on their heads and improvised musical sketches, we can only conclude by claiming that you never stop learning ...
Here photos of the evening. Here is a quick video on the evening essais .

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THE READER - HIGH VOICE ON MY LIPS

Berlin 1958. The fifteen-Michael Berg is walking road in the rain, when he suddenly felt unwell and took refuge in the lobby of a building. A woman in the building and it helps him back home. Recovered from Scarlet Fever, Michael goes to the woman's house to thank her: a young woman of about thirty francs, almost brusque manners. The woman seduces him almost immediately and the two begin an affair that Michael is completely absorbed. Hanna is the name of the woman, it begins to the pleasures of sex but in return he wants Michael to read something, every time a different book: a pleasure that seems to satisfy him more than anything else. They spend all summer together, until one day they disappeared, leaving a deep void in the soul that Michael will not be able longer to fill.

E '1966. Michael attended law school at the university. Together with the group of students and his law professor is invited to follow the trial of six former concentration camp guards at Auschwitz guilty of having caused the death of three hundred Jewish refugees in a church. Among the

Hanna is charged.

for Michael Schoch is one: the woman he loved desperately, so mysterious and tender, it shows a murderer. The boy follows the process and suddenly becomes aware of a truth that had always before their eyes when they were together but that was never realized. That truth Hanna could be saved from condemnation, but the resolve to desist from helping her do it, without realizing that they actually have more shame that he is illiterate you find that instead of being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple murder.
Years pass. Michael is a lawyer, is divorced and has a great daughter who does not see often. Back to live as a bachelor, he finds the books she read to Hanna and decides to record the tapes in which she liked reading the text once, as if to re-establish a relationship, but denies the slightest contact with her.

Hanna begins to live, thanks to the tapes, began learning to read and write alone, in solitude of his cell. This strange relationship lasts for a few years until it comes time for Hanna to leave the prison. The Director of the Institute contact Michael that the organizations a life outside, because they have no one to turn to. Michael reluctantly accepts a while and finally decided to meet her after thirty years. This is getting old and off, but you do not find any sign of repentance, neither for him nor for the crime committed when he was wounded boy. Hanna realizes that nothing will ever be and that his life is truly over, but not betraying the pride of all time, will once again herself to decide his fate ...

THE FILM
Based on the novel of the 1995 Bernhard Schlink , "Der Vorleser ''(literally, the reader, who sees), The Reader - A loud is directed by British filmmaker Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours).
Released in 2008, the film caused quite a few discussions about whether to associate a hot topic again as the Holocaust story to a purely erotic and titillating, even attempting to give a justification to ' attitude of some marginal figures of Nazism and concentration camps.
criticism as unjustified in my opinion the film does not try neither to justify nor to condemn the character of Hanna Schmitz, merely to tell of his life, that after the war, in a normal living situation dealing with a guy who could be his son and that she instead makes her lover, but not for sheer perversity, but because it sees him as a means, a vehicle to exit a condition that makes her feel inferior to others, without becoming a hero or a holy martyr.

In the first part of the film we witness the birth of this love between two people different from each other and share two faces: the adolescent ardor in the unbridled passion of a boy struggling with the first sexual experiences and mature and conscious sensuality of an adult woman struggling with a man not a man that makes her feel beautiful and good, why not contemplate deeply in the soul but accepts it only for what she gives.
This report allows you to forget what it is and what it was, although Hanna never reveals his soul completely, in contrast to his body. His mania for cleaning the bathrooms, which also requires Michael to perfection in dress, hiding something that pricked into it but she tries to bury all the way, as if a small crease or a halo and could unmask condemn it. When you are promoted to the job and is offered a post office, Hanna is facing an abyss and runs away, still a time, leaving Michael distraught and confused, without any explanation.

Years later, in the second half of the film, when Michael finds himself in the courtroom as a defendant in a lawsuit against the Nazis, he feels within himself a sort of revulsion toward a being that had both and that he had betrayed so badly, especially after following the indictment in which he learns that Hanna was also reading the books by then deported to the camps selected for the gas chambers. Hanna, rather than deny, defends himself by claiming that all he had done was necessary, it was his job. Will bear the responsibility of having produced the report in which describes the death of Jewish refugees in a church during a bombing raid, though illiterate and unable to write his name. The biggest shame for her, what makes her feel more guilty, and illiteracy, and is not considered a Nazi. His pride, his dignity first, even if it means sacrificing his freedom.

Michael discovers this truth but you pull back, it helps to clear itself, because inside he wants her to pay, even for what he did.
Years pass, Michael grows up, marries Gertrude, a daughter, Julia, but fails to maintain a long relationship stable with women because they scored from his youthful experience with Hanna, as well as her marriage fails.
In the third part, the two protagonists find themselves in a single game, short but intense, where you will find now hopelessly far and away. Michael is still trying to trace a small failure in the determination of her, but Hanna remains firm in his convictions, despite everything. Until the end ...
Daldry directs with a steady hand and without virtuosity, offering a clear and straightforward film, touching on the important issues that would be easy to get carried away and fall into bad taste, especially in the first part of the film in which he describes the relationship with explicit images sex between Hanna and the "boy" as she calls it. Merit also a good cast of actors, first among all the Kate Winslet always good, here in a difficult role, which is exposed to body and soul with admirable ease.
Special mention also to newcomer David Kross , the true protagonist of the film, a revelation in every sense, who was able to bring to the screen the torments and the loss of a teenager struggling with the unusual initiation into adult life with a mature woman.

The director remains faithful to the novel and not trying to go in the rhetoric of the Holocaust, even if held in the background, he could ask for. Sticking to the facts, does not condemn nor downplaying the enormity of the crime committed, but as rightly said in one of the secondary characters: Why did you all pretended not to know? Why do not you have fired all when you knew? Everyone knew, but all were silent ... , referring to the presence of concentration camps in Germany.

seventy years have passed from the Holocaust, it's just not forget, but The Reader is not a film about the Holocaust nor boasts of it. It 's the story of a boy and his training, a man troubled and disillusioned too early mankind, played by Hanna Schmitz, illiterate victim of his time.
Kate Winslet said: "This is not a story about forgiveness or reconciliation. It is a story about repentance and how ever you do not choose who you love"
A movie not great, yet elegantly noteworthy.

THE CAST
Kate Winslet is Hanna Schmitz
Rude, awkward and lonely, working as a conductress on the line for trams in Berlin. The relationship with the young Michael was born in a natural and free, day by day. Winslet plays the character with ease, also facing very explicit nudity while not having a perfect body. Chosen as Kidman's acting for this part, I think the role fits very well, although I think he did better in the past. A well-deserved Oscar.

David Kross Michael Berg is a young
Quindicenne sluggish and clumsy, as required by his age, finds life in the arms of Hanna, a woman who will always remain his existence even after three decades. The German debutant actor had to wait to make the legal age to be able to interpret the erotic scenes with Winslet role certainly not easy but it has been able to handle with great professionalism. The real discovery of the film, interpretation very convincing and sincere, a true hero.

Ralph Fiennes is great by Michael
Ralph Fiennes is cut a few scenes, especially the ending of the film, playing a grown-up and disillusioned with Michael Berg, a failed marriage behind him and an inner turmoil that still fails to eradicate. Will he get rid of his bitterness after seeing Hanna for the last time, when she no longer be a presence in his soul destroyed. Interpretation
infallible as ever.




Before seeing the film in question I wanted to read Schlink's novel to savor the best story and characters, with nuances that are sometimes not expressed in images, as opposed to literary language. Stephen Daldry has stuck pretty faithfully to the book, leaving out secondary episodes that nevertheless did not affect the fluidity of the plot, rather increased emphasis on the psychology of the characters while maintaining the essential and lean style that also characterizes the novel.

It 's a film packed very well but not overly excited, not involved enough viewer, as if it raised a certain distance between the story and the public, or at least that was my impression. Despite
the impeccable acting of the actors seems to be missing something, maybe a little bit of soul, perhaps a little more emotional heat, I do not know.
The fact that The Reader a movie is not great in terms of film, but which has received a response from the public and lots of prizes, especially the Winslet, such as to change his mind and groped by a visual approach.
Indeed, the film deserves, but it's like not to leave anything in the end, despite the final message is interesting and sensual scenes that could start to attract even the most discerning palates. All in all, the book leaves the same taste in mouth and Daldry was not possible to do more. Recommended for
those who like unusual stories, intimate and elegant film, made up of actors and intense drama.
Not recommended for those who do not like these kinds of stories and regrets ...

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Agent 007: Casino Royale

Well if not I can talk about the last film in the room so why not go and fish out those who now also have a certain age.
And to begin, start with a good film certainly unique!

I love the Agent 007. I love him for his nonchalance throughout the UK, his savoir-farie and his incredible inventions and gadgets such as that found cinematic (as an R Moore who forget the parachute with the Union Jack or is a chase between the canals of Venice? ES Connery who sees the enemy in the eyes of the woman who is kissing? Tell me a little when in kissing someone you have noticed what is reflected in the eyes of the beloved ....... If we try to look at other object of desire that we see a monster movie horror !!!!)

So just why I love them all except the Bond Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig. The First American because TROOOOOPPOOOO to be a British agent and surrenders to revenge, and the second one too flippant and sometimes a little too realistic. I do not care to see suffer or lose the agent 007, I already know who should win! The beauty is not the realism, but the absurd suspension of reality is reached.

So in this light, the square at the top Casino Royale, the first one I do not recommend that the 1966 version of the sad forty years later.
In this film, very little espionage and slapstick comedy directed by John Houston, there is an elderly but very well preserved, James Bond played by David Niven in service that is invoked against a spy agency that relies on the weak point of the secret agents the bond-girl.
The film certainly does not shine for its originality, positioning or anything else but for its full absurdity.

James Bond, in addition to that Niven, so are Woody Allen and Peter Sellers (including the three by far the most appropriate, would not disfigured in the series canonina). We find the forbidden fruit of love between Bond and Mata Hari, Mata Bond played by Joanna Pettet, while a young Barbara Bouchet is the daughter of Money Penny who took over as secretary to M, and there's the legendary bond inifine number-one-girl Ursula Andress.
the end, the film is taking a ride around, exaggerating more than the already large excesses of the Bond films. Unfortunately, as I said, the film suffers badly in the assembly (there are a number of scenes held together by good will of the viewer more than anything else), but in the end the pace and holds the film is definitely watch again and again, even if a certain amount of solution of continuity

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Carla Behm is a thirty-five who works as a secretary in the agency building. Despite his hard work, can not make a career within the company, in a highly sexist when Carla is continually frustrated by his physical appearance is not attractive and it is for its handicap, deafness, which can to hide thanks to a hearing aid.
stressed out from work ever more urgently, a day at the office Carla faints. His boss then decided to add an assistant, Paul Angeli, a guy with no experience just out of prison. Carla immediately feel a strong attraction toward him, as if the boy seemingly misfit who lives on the margins of society we see a bit of herself, and between the two comes a strange complicity.
But Paul has to come to terms with its past.
After suffering a beating in the bathroom of the office, confesses to Carla to have a debt of 70,000 francs Marchand, a shady type who blackmails him. To pay his debt, will be forced to work in local Marchand and leave my job in the company. Carla is a tragedy not want to lose Paul, but does not know how to help him.

few days later, Paul returned to find her and invites her into the room where he works. Carla is an illusion that Paul is going to woo her but he really has in mind a big one against right Marchand which keeps it in his fist. Remember the ability to read lips Carla, intends to use her to find out what they are planning Marchand and his two partners: a robbery at a bank.
Paul and Carla began thus affixed to the roof of the building opposite the office of Marchand and, with binoculars, spying on conversations between him and his accomplices through the window. Carla, at first reluctant, will prove to be smarter than it looks and be able to find out where to hide the loot Marchand. Paul and Carla are now put in motion to steal the money from under the nose and they succeed as well, but Marchand discovered the theft ...

THE FILM
what may at first seem like a classic film of social commentary or essay existential modern era, it becomes a respectable thriller, with a good dose of tension and a very interesting plot. Director Jacques Audiard
managed to pack a good movie, telling the story of two original characters, two anonymous lives, brought together by loneliness and desire for redemption in a society in which they excel the unscrupulous scoundrels. The use of spy shots almost through the keyhole, as if it would violate the privacy of an existence all too normal, bring highlight the details that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

The beginning a little slow, almost mundane, takes us inside the life of Carla, in her frustration at being relegated to second-ever job, despite having more capacity is willing to recognize them in its alone in his small apartment, in the relationship with her friends and their sexual experiences that she can not match, in his handicap, that's a different feel, while trying in every way not to be, in his touchiness, his close to curl toward others not to feel rejected.
The arrival of Paul has an immediate impact in his life. Mandated to choose the right candidate for the post of assistant secretary, despite being aware that now is an ex-con and most inexperienced of the office, decides to hire the same, covers it with colleagues, helping you to learn and Member is also an accommodation to stay, because he wants to give him a chance, because it sees him as another being rejected, being considered a "different" from the society around them.

Paul, after two years in prison for theft and receiving stolen goods, is on parole and tries to find the right way. But not resigned to being an outcast, someone to blame, while trying to stay out of trouble.
will be meeting with Carla for both a change, a change of gear. At both
will use each other to get their little existential redemption, to become accomplices in a robbery against a shady individual. In other words: today me, tomorrow you ... The
turning thriller film is perhaps the strong point. After entering into their world, the director takes us inside the action, ordendo a shot from the dynamics quite original, in which the handicap of Carla reveals that Paul uses a very effective weapon with intelligence to reach his goal.

The two protagonists of victims will turn into "killers", as often happens in reality in people too long oppressed. All in a Paris subway, peripheral and night, far from the pomp and dazzling views of the Eiffel Tower. Although the final, a bit too obvious, satisfies all tastes, without falling into rhetoric or wallow in the drama.
Released in 2001, the film won three Cesar.

THE CAST

Vincent Cassel is Paul Angeli. Known more as
Mr. Bellucci than for his acting skills, I must admit that it was often a very good performer, though too often relegated to roles as tough and bad (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Doberman, The Promise Assassin): roles that can very well but are likely to close in a cliché landlocked. The role of Paul Angeli stands out from its usual role, especially in the understated style, never over the top of his acting. The face-dog of a man tried from prison, sharp and suspicious. A character well defined by Cassel, full of nuances, made a "normal" look scruffy and skinny. A good test of an actor that I really appreciated.

Emmanuelle Devos is Carla Behm .
know very little of this actress and I think I've seen so far only this movie with her as the protagonist. Not beautiful, not particularly gifted, this role is because the fit is everything the character should be.

confess my almost complete ignorance of the French cinema.
not even remember how this is done in my dvd shelf, perhaps as an attachment to a magazine. I only know that it was "unwatchable" for months before I found out. Yes, the verb "discover" I think it suits very well to this movie, because actually it was a great discovery.
first intrigued by the fact that there was only Cassel, who may not be beautiful, but her why (to ask ...), I was favorably Bellucci impressed by the film.
I have never particularly loved the cinema over the Alps, do not even know very well the director, Audiard, if not in name, but I learned a lesson: never before prevented from seeing a film. They take crazy blunders. In this case, positively! It 'also true that can not be considered a masterpiece of cinema, but as the French film industry is no different from years the extraordinary quality of his films, it was right for me to enter a film that had at least somewhat aroused considerable interest.

The start of muted My Lips takes pace in the second half. Left with the frustration and sadness of the two protagonists, you will be dragged into action and in designing a full-blown stroke, as two criminal minds ready to do everything not to give up.
A history traits abnormal, a love story that comes on slowly, but that does not take off if the last frame, not to give in to sentimentality.
Here, in this film about the disabled, former convicts, crime of stalking, but there is rhetoric and above all no malice nor pity. Everything is treated with "normal" even if you feel the inner unease bubbling in the two protagonists.

Everything is shown as a mirror for what is, without roof or ideologies: a cross-section of a given society, is today the world of work or the nightlife of a big city. A good film
European, born in a minor key, perhaps, but certainly not well known to be rediscovered for the originality with which the subjects were treated for the storyline interesting and surprisingly ingenious that the director has managed to create.
Last but not least, a very Cassel: less blowhard, less rude, less bad, more intimate, more real now than good.

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THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Italy 1945. At the end of World War II, a man completely burned, identity unknown, is treated in a hospital ally on the Tuscan coast. On his medical history is referred to as English Patient because speaks that language. The twenty-year old nurse who is treating, Hana , shocked by the atrocities of the war just ended, he decided to stay for some time in an abandoned monastery near Siena, with his patient. Ritrovatasi alone in that desolate place, but a peace that pervaded for so long sought, Hana establishes a relationship of confidence with this strange patient, trying to relieve his physical pain that forced him to immobility and to stimulate his memory to find the lost traces of its past. Thanks also to the book of Herodotus that he had with him, full of notes and photos, as the English Patient begins to relive his past in long passages of flashbacks that bring him back to Cairo, where he was with his friend for a Maddox exploration archaeological site in the Sahara on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society.

E 'in 1939 and world winds of war.

the small group of explorers must be added the couple Clifton, Geoffrey and his beautiful wife Katherine with their new reconnaissance aircraft. The presence of women raises immediately the Hungarian count Lazslo de Almasy, the real identity of the English Patient, a strong attraction: a feeling that at first he tries to suppress in an aura of indifference. Katherine's husband goes on a mysterious journey, so she joins the company of explorers in the Sahara in search cave paintings. E 'on this occasion that Count Almasy discovers the Cave of Swimmers , with beautiful wall paintings dating back to Neolithic times. Stuck in a jeep in the desert by a sandstorm, the two inevitably arises love. Back in Cairo give themselves up to passion, heedless of her husband, who discovers the affair.

Meanwhile, the old monastery is alive with new arrivals: Kip, the Indian sihk responsible for cleaning up the mine area, which falls in love with Hana and the thief Caravaggio Italian-Canadian David , a mysterious man who says he knows a lot about the English Patient. In reality Caravaggio is looking for revenge. Tortured in Tobruk during the war and stripped of two inches, the man is believed to have been sold to the Germans as a spy by the British just Almasy.
E 'moment of truth. Stunned by morphine to ease the pain of burns, Almasy recalls the love affair with Katherine until the epilogue of his life, when she gets injured in a terrifying plane crash before his eyes, led by Geoffrey acceccato jealousy. Trying to save at all costs, the dying leaves in the Cave of Swimmers and partly in search of help ...

THE FILM

Based on the novel Canadian writer Michael Ondatije of 1993, the Anglo-Italian film director Anthony Minghella builds a storyline rich in anecdotes and in some ways too complicated and disorganized.
The English Patient is the third film by the cinematic style and sees a traditional, very Old Britain, of great melodramatic as were fashionable in the years 40-50.
What is undoubtedly the most attractive setting and the contrasting landscapes: the green and ocher of the Sienese hills are opposed to the endless expanses of the Sahara, and dazzling in its immense dunes velvety, alternating with the luxury of the Hotel Shepeard Cairo (rebuilt at the Hotel de Bains, Venice) and the narrow streets of the city's Arab market.

Italy There's a lot in this film, not only in the locations and set (in Cinecittà and Tuscany), but also in spirit and love that the director infuses the images and shots.
The narrative style is perhaps the weak point of the entire work: verbose and as I said before, dispersed with too many parallel stories that might distract from the essence of history. It probably would have been better to focus on one aspect over another of the novel basic, too complex to make it cinematically. The result is still significant but sometimes 207minuti can be heavy.

THE CAST

Ralph Fiennes is Count Laszlo de Almasy .
A role that fits perfectly and conforms to the kind of people who so loves the actor bring to the screen: introverted, tormented, capable of great passions and devoured by sorrow. Her performance won an Oscar nomination (the second for him after that for Schindler's List in the part of Amon Goeth), but was ousted by Geoffrey Rush, star of Shine. His style is dry, never over the top, but rather dignified and touching in his grief and his tears Distraught over the loss of his beloved, gives a portrait of the character very believable.

Kristin Scott-Thomas is Katherine Clifton. The actress recalls
often have long struggled to get the part destined to the most famous actress, but his determination was able to convince the director and then the producers, hesitant to find a pair of actors to appeal to the box below office. A safe bet that he launched on the international scene, even though in my opinion is no longer able to have parts just as interesting as in this film. The character of Katherine, a woman who puts everything in the game of love with passion, volitional traits and sometimes fragile, is a striking proof. Nominated for her.

Juliette Binoche is Hana . Its freshness and lightness that manages to infuse his character, even in dramatic situations, have they done to deserve the Oscar for this film. His character is the most positive story to turn to his others, his generosity but also the frustration and hidden pain makes the character more real than history. His affair with Kip is the hope for the future, represents the rebirth and the desire to start again after the horror of war.
Willem Dafoe is
David Caravaggio. His character is consumed with the bitterness of a life destroyed by war and betrayal and attempts to seek his revenge at last peace of his soul. When we finally find the stories that bind him to the English Patient, Count whisper: You can not kill me. I died years ago with the woman I loved.

The supporting actors who complete the cast are Colin Firth in the role of Geoffrey Clifton (impeccable) and Naveen Andrews in the role of Kip (later seen on the show Lost).

AWARDS

The English Patient won Hollywood and not just buying up awards all over the world. These include:
9 1997 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Sound
2 Golden Globe 1997 : best dramatic film, best original score
6 1997 BAFTA Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Editing
2 European Film Awards 1997: Best Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Cinematography
1997 Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Actress (Juliette Binoche)

The English Patient is a drama, in the truest sense of the word. A Filmon, a melodrama of many voices: poignant, touching and realistic romantic. There are scenes honeyed: the thorny character of Almasy does not indulge in facile sentimentality but is thrown into strong passions, and never indulge at all. When Katherine asks: " And what do you hate most? ", He replied:" The property , be possessed. "His fear of love, perhaps, his fear of letting go with this woman who does not belong because married to another, forcing him to wear a suit of armor not to suffer .

The historical context of the story is often relegated to the background of the story, never lived in the foreground, except in some initial stage, focusing on the relationship of the primary characters and their innermost feelings.
L ' setting old style, almost traditional, like Casablanca, is a feature I love about this film, something that you no longer see a movie, so invaded by the special effects and 3D technologies and the paucity of ideas. A great film of the late Minghella (who died prematurely in 2008), though not very successful. I think that it has reached a higher level from "The Talented Mr. Ripley" onwards. The term "melodramatic unrepentant."

TORNARAI And I know you take me OUT OF HERE IN THE PALACE OF WINDS

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