Profumo di donna Reviews

Personally, I always had some mixed feelings about ‘Scent of a Woman’, the 1992 version starring Al Pacino. I mean, for the previous 20 years, Pacino had been obviously one of the greatest thespians, delivering some amazing performances especially in the 70’s (‘The Godfather’, ‘Serpico’, ‘The Godfather: Part II’, ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, ‘...And Justice for All’, ‘Scarface’,…). Eventually, to make up for their previous mistake, the Academy decided to reward him for this performance which was indeed decent but far from his best work. On top of that, it was a remake of a fine Italian movie and, in my opinion, the US version was actually weaker. I mean, between Vittorio Gassman and Al Pacino, I would have a hard time to pick up which one was the best but what was obvious is that this original version was much darker and therefore much more satisfying than the remake. Indeed, if you put Al Pacino aside, the whole thing was pretty much an underwhelming fairy tale. Here, it was really raw with much more depth. To conclude, even though I’m not sure if it was really a masterpiece, it was still a fine drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Italian movies.