L'incredibile storia dell'isola delle rose

This is a beautifully written, acted and directed little gem. It is very funny, sweet, intelligent and light. The design production and photography are particularly beautiful, colourful, a bit surrealist, reminiscent of Fellini's style. Very enjoyable.

Living not more than 30km from the place where 'Insulo de la Rozoj' was built, I was always interested in a movie depicting its history...This one leans too much on the comedic side (maybe to avoid a historic drama tone), leaving to the (skilled) actors the task of saving characters' depth. The technical details and photography are indeed very enjoyable, maybe it's just a bit noisy.

The majority of critics have no clue about the significance of the events carefully crafted in this truly Italian opereta. I was 18 when this happened and it looked absolutely insane looking at this from America. Fortunately I speak Italian and actors are just fantastic. I will give special credits to Francois Cluzet, one of my favorite French actors. The events are those that happened that year of revolts in France and elsewhere, while this engineer Rosa makes the impossible to pass the same message with technology.

Sibilia's first major work after 'Smetto quando voglio' trilogy fails to adopt a different yet needed style for this flick. The film is indeed genuinely entertaining still presumptuous. The relevancy of this historical event was minor at the very least in the Italian politics yet is portrayed as an enourmous occurrency. The historical inaccuracy given to the event is froustrating since the movie tries to rebember to the spectator the truthfulness of the event although in reality the happening was completely different. Besides of this, the film is still enjoyable mainly thanks to Germano's acting and the director's slighty surreal touch.

A really cool concept, especially considering it's based on a true story. I loved the music and the cinematography was well done. However, the storyline was slow and meandered a bit.