I'll start the review saying that I'm Sicilian, and by telling you this I'm implying that i understood all the dialogues without the aid of the subtitles. This fact helped me enjoy the movie way more than any other italian watcher because dialogues are really fast and easy to miss if you just follow the subtitles.
Even with this little flaw, Roberto Andò and his staff did a great job in portraying the never written Luigi Pirandello's tragicomedy. In my eyes, the ambitious work was well displayed, with a good pace, beginning with a usual incipit and becoming more and more twisted with time, making you question if what you saw was actually reality or the story ideated by Luigi Pirandello's allucinated mind. In some way, the movie, was like a remake of "6 personaggi in cerca d'autore", a work which was acclaimed and heavily criticized at the same time, just as this movie. One recurrent theme was the "comedy inside the comedy" concept, the grotesque overcharacterization of the protagonists (both of this movie and "6 personaggi in cerca d'autore") and the subtle realism seeming fiabesque, almost "unreal".
Ficarra and Picone (partnered with Servillo) gave us one of the best, if not THE BEST, performance I've ever seen from them. They were simply THE FILM. Tony as usual did a great job, but I'm still flabbergasted by the comic duo.
What makes the film worth the watch, though, is the finale, in which all the movie takes on meaning.
The final psycological cliff-hanger in wich you question the entire film, and leaves you with a Nolan's "Inception" bittersweet taste in your mouth was a nice ending.
Was the first part real? Or was it all the fruit of Luigi's mental breakdown?
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SCORECARD
In a range from 1 to 5, i'll give a value to each entry written below. The final mark will be the weighted sum of each fraction:
Subject (2.5) = 3/5 Development of the Subject (1.5) = 1/5 Direction/Screenplay (2) = 4/5 Attention (1) = 1/5 Recitation (1.5) = 4/5 Musical Score (0.5) = 2/5
Final Mark: (2.5 x 5/5) + (1.5 x 5/5) + (2 x 3/5) + (1 x 4/5) + (1.5 x 5/5) + (0.5 x 3/5) = 7.8
I give 8 cos i liked the film.
Even with this little flaw, Roberto Andò and his staff did a great job in portraying the never written Luigi Pirandello's tragicomedy. In my eyes, the ambitious work was well displayed, with a good pace, beginning with a usual incipit and becoming more and more twisted with time, making you question if what you saw was actually reality or the story ideated by Luigi Pirandello's allucinated mind. In some way, the movie, was like a remake of "6 personaggi in cerca d'autore", a work which was acclaimed and heavily criticized at the same time, just as this movie. One recurrent theme was the "comedy inside the comedy" concept, the grotesque overcharacterization of the protagonists (both of this movie and "6 personaggi in cerca d'autore") and the subtle realism seeming fiabesque, almost "unreal".
Ficarra and Picone (partnered with Servillo) gave us one of the best, if not THE BEST, performance I've ever seen from them. They were simply THE FILM. Tony as usual did a great job, but I'm still flabbergasted by the comic duo.
What makes the film worth the watch, though, is the finale, in which all the movie takes on meaning.
The final psycological cliff-hanger in wich you question the entire film, and leaves you with a Nolan's "Inception" bittersweet taste in your mouth was a nice ending.
Was the first part real? Or was it all the fruit of Luigi's mental breakdown?
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SCORECARD
In a range from 1 to 5, i'll give a value to each entry written below. The final mark will be the weighted sum of each fraction:
Subject (2.5) = 3/5 Development of the Subject (1.5) = 1/5 Direction/Screenplay (2) = 4/5 Attention (1) = 1/5 Recitation (1.5) = 4/5 Musical Score (0.5) = 2/5
Final Mark: (2.5 x 5/5) + (1.5 x 5/5) + (2 x 3/5) + (1 x 4/5) + (1.5 x 5/5) + (0.5 x 3/5) = 7.8
I give 8 cos i liked the film.