Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) (1988)

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 19 7:01

''Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.'' 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. Salvatore Cascio: Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Child Cinema Paradiso is one of those films you hear made in some kind of reference too many times and ponder, yes, I must watch that one someday. Unfortunately that day kept passing me, but I now believe this was meant to be, for when I did finally catch, it was a very different film than everybody had been going on about. The most enjoyable moments to me were the scenes with the child Salvatore (real name in fact Salvatore), or Toto as he is known in the village. A little acting marvel, his face truly lights up ...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Jan 19 16:08

This movie is mostly about the flashback of a well-renowned director of his childhood growing up as little boy and his love with the movies after hearing the news of the dead of Alfredo, a projectionist. The director whose name is Salvatore Di Vita or lovingly known by people who saw him grew up as Toto has his whole life evolved around the movie house which is the Cinema Paradiso. It also touches on the love and the community but it is the relationship between Toto and Alfredo that catches the heart of the audience about the movie. Toto as a son whom Alfredo never have and Alfredo as a father whom Toto never had. I first watched this movie as part of a requirement for one of the film classes that I had taken. It was a good movie and little did I know that what I had watched in the clas...Read more

Rating : 9/10