Posts Tagged ‘La Sconosciuta (2006)’
Author: Colin
Bellisima!
As part of Picturenose’s ongoing commitment to the cream of European cinema, a passion that we share with our sister site European Film Awards Reviews, Colin offers his thoughts on a modern Italian classic…
The main problem with Italian cinema is that most of it stays in Italy. A nation that is happy to share its cuisine, culture, style and general all-round dolce vita with the wider world is remarkably reluctant to export anything but a small percentage of its huge celluloid output to the global viewership. As a result of this, my experience of Italian cinema has been, up to now, either political polemic or Fellini-style “let’s fall in love and have some linguini vongole and a bit of a dance”.
La Sconosciuta (2006), written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso (1988)), not only opened my eyes to just how powerful and torrid Italian films could be, but also moves me to say something I have never put in print: This is the best film I have seen this year, by a long way.
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