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Pane e cioccolata (1974)
An excellent movie
If all the film-festival awards this movie has won haven't convinced you to see it, then my review probably will not either. Regardless, it is important to know how well-done this movie truly is. Nino Manfredi does an absolutely stellar performance as a poor Italian immigrant trying to fit in in a world which dislikes him and his kind. From the start, this seems like a regular enjoyable comedy, but quickly transitions into both a comedy and a drama. On the one-hand, Manfredi's Chaplinesque "loveable loser" character is both endearing and hilarious. On the other hand, the film offers true insight into the problem of immigrational bias and cultural dissimilarity, and a stabbing insight into the premise of a national identity; how it is both meaningless and yet extremely important. This film deserves every award it received and then some.
Black Cadillac (2003)
Just not worth the hype
Black Cadillac was supposed to be a scary movie, but it wasn't that scary at all. Somehow I don't constitute being chased by a car into something that scares the living daylights out of me. The dialog, I felt, was sometimes forced and corny. The acting was, granted, not the worst I have ever seen, but definitely far from the best. Also, I could see the ending from a mile away. It was completely unoriginal. Randy Quaid has done a much better job in much better movies, and it pains me to see him doing a movie like this. The entire plot itself seems to add one cliché to a completely separate one, and the result is a complete disaster: The teen-adventure flick, complete with the cool ladies' man, the insane best-friend, and the nerdy wimp, meets the B-movie horror genre, and it just doesn't work.