- Also Known As:
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso; Director’s Cut
- Year:
- 1988
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Drama
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
- Themes:
- Compassion
- Empathy
- Friendship
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loyalty
- Mankind
- Nostalgia
- Self-expression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be
Indulges our desire for nostalgia while telling us we should never look back. Impossible, of course, since the future is very much predicated upon the past. And one cannot possibly possess one without the other.
A look at a lost love that is both literally a woman and metaphorically an elegy for a lost world of cinema before it lost its value in the 1960s; leaving us bereft with just a still-twitching corpse that rarely produces anything much of value above the never ending stream of sex, violence & swear words.
A film for people who like stories served-up through the medium of cinema with its possibilities for communal enjoyment that seem so foreign to us today.
Copyright © 2014 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute this posting in any format; provided mention of the author’s Weblog (Esthetics) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.
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