Sometimes fairy tales do come true ... or perhaps more important is that the tales of certain short-sightedness and courage to other distributors. And maybe even a bit of luck. Maybe a little of everything '. Fattostà that what is happening in I love fourth feature former director Luca Guadagnino videoclipparo really incredible. summarize briefly: the film was presented at the Venice Film Festival 2008, snubbed by the critics and our local business with a return almost non-existent. Distributed (so to speak) in fifty rooms in the space of a weekend, many months after the transition to the Lido, it gets ridiculous and receipts shall be confiscated immediately. The showcase festival, however, for once, gets its purpose, the film was first noticed by Canadian producers and distributed also in the U.S. market. Is then presented first at the Toronto Film Festival and then at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival , with great appreciation by all the criticism North America. Once I reached the cinema, I am love (the title 'International') begins incredibly big box office successes in American coming to collect the highly distinguished figure of $ 6 million, a goal achieved in the past only by very few other foreign securities (eg Life is Beautiful). In addition, for the Washington Post is considered among the four best film of 2010. Variety comes mockingly to argue that 'not even look like an Italian film is so different from the usual (and implied poor) comedies of Belpaese '. The New York Times even compares him to Hitchcock's Vertigo (!).
All this earned him a surprising nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and the protagonist best actress Tilda Swinton.
What can I say? Myopia of our home cinema or dazzle critics with stars and stripes?
Perhaps the truth, as always, lies somewhere in between. One thing is certain: I love is not a trivial film, and certainly not worth the arrogance and indifference of our market.
The film is an ambitious Guadagnino, brain, perhaps unresolved, but that certainly does not leave indifferenti.E 'the story of a prominent family of Milan's beautiful people, whose daily routine is disrupted, ruined by the sudden passion of the wife of headed for a newly hired young chef. This story of impossible love, the first suppressed and then exploded with the force of a cyclone, it creates a devastating effect on all members of the family, too long imprisoned in the dryness and stuffy bourgeois life in which they struggle along. The tragedy of course is just around the corner, but the ability of the director is not to give anything to pity and sensationalism easy, avoiding 'big scene' and effect sequences.
The cut of the film is cold, icy, impersonal, and seemingly quite 'indigestible' to the viewer, who expects 'something happens' at any time ... but the minutes pass and the discomfort (of the actors and the audience) grows without on the screen that you see something 'sensational'. Yet the concern is palpable, making the viewer aware of the collapse in value of a company (in this case Italian, but could be anywhere in the world) based on appearance and hypocrisy.
Sure, the film in some respects it might seem pretentious and complacency. 'A dry exercise in style' as he wrote much of the Italian critics ... who may not have a point but, I say, has never addressed the same criticism, for example, the films of Michael Haneke : director praised by all whose works, in my humble opinion, are the closest to this one.
The conclusions? That perhaps the Italians (I am speaking in general) should have a little 'more patience and a little' more critical in judging works of conscience 'misaligned' and depart from the national standards. Sure, a lot of snooty critics will continue to cut down on principle Guadagnino, but while he makes money hand over fist in the States and could more than one application at the upcoming Oscars. Not that but for the foreign film category for which Italy has chosen the ruffianissimo, tired, hypocritical and politically correct The first nice thing to Paolo Virzi. Film 'aligned' and the name of 'good blood volume', typical of our country. Maybe you will win, but certainly more than one employee in the work begins, subtly, to creep in doubt: we will not have the wrong movie?
RATING: * * * *
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