blutosky

past month i've sent some comments (3, i seem) about italian films and they were not published. i perfectly agree about your right to publish or not my opinions in your pages but i think that you are obliged to reply. i shall never send any other comment.

It's near impossible to see an italian film - after 1990 - not acted by Silvio Orlando: this is one of this rare bird. That's true, I know it, Alessandro Haber is present and acts the usual photocopy of himself but we can't have all we desire. Stefano Accorsi is a very good young actor and here is helped by a lot of excellent character actors (Emilio Solfrizzi is great speaking a mixed north-south italian dialect). The story - true - is about a gentleman thief running away from jail and is very well telled by the young director Enzo Monteleone.

Writing credits are by Horst Fantazzini and this is the story of his life, of a thief and a gentleman that today is still imprisoned in Alessandria (Italy).

Seeing something new I wish for something able to amaze me. Why this? Because I've seen a lot of films (3,000?) and so, after many years of cinema I have often the sensation to have seen everything is possible. One evening, some months ago, my wife went to theatre and I was alone at home. The remote control was finally only mine and I spent 2 or 3 hours looking for something interesting: nothing, as usual. I was hardly thinking to my bed when the face of George Clooney fill up my TV.....interesting......there is another man on the car.....QUENTIN!!! what happens? I'm alert like a cricket, now. Now the film begins and I want to look at it. Only an advice: prepare your drinks before the beginning, if you wake up during the film it's possible that you return on your sofa and you think: "Oh God, MY film is finished and THIS is another one".