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Cinema Paradiso

CINEMA PARADISO
Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Philippe Noiret
Directed b:y Giusepe Tornatore

Nuevo Cinema Paradiso, is a reminiscence film about a famous film director, Salvatore Di Vita (Marco Leonardi), who returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), the projectionist, helped little Salvatore a.k.a Toto discover the entertaining world of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena (Agnese Nano). Their love story became the greatest movie story within the movie itself, directed by Giusepe Tornatore and won the 1988 Best Foreign film and shared other 18 awards and 12 nominations.

The movie’s greatest strength lies on its sound and shot quality making it an attaching movie to watch. The background music delivers you exactly to the emotion each scene presents. With its shot quality, every scene is in bright, full color giving everything in fine details. It also adds up to the emotion-building all throughout the show, if at some times you feel tired of watching, the backgrounds like the horizon or the sea gives your eyes relaxation, resting your eyes with clear and hi resolution images.

The production design is also superb the concept of making the theater as the main element in the story was executed perfectly. The sets and the locations where all fit to the storyline. For the script, viewers will find half of the movie as a silent movie, showing only the emotions but when the characters speak, the lines are always with substance full of lessons, coupled with comical, romantic and emotional lines that best suite the characters themselves.

For the characters, the cast gave a great deal of personification to their roles. For instance, the Salvatore kid and the Salvatore teen were consistent as far the personality of the role is concerned sure there are changes but these changes are actually a solidification of the...