Texas

Finally an Italian movie, that's actually fun to watch!!! No over-acting, no troubled soul character.... This movie is about a group of friends from a small village in Italy. It's a warm, and intimate movie. The kind of movie you wanna see over and over. Sort of like the 'breakfast Club'(if you where a teen in the 80's i mean). The main story is about a guy from the group who falls in love with his brothers school teacher. But don't worry it's not cheesy, and it doesn't play on cheap emotions. That's the main story. But in the background you finally have colourful character: like a guy who only talks burping, a guy who wants to get la*d, the Mexican headed by PAco, who always has a beer in hand, etc... The cool thing about this movie is that it's original in the sense, that it goes away from the normal 'small town movie' clichés such as 'I wanna get outta here, leave this town'. The characters are in union with the place, and they are really funny. Even though the storyline is one. So many things happen in the background, that am sure I missed some jokes. It's the kind of movie, I can't wait till it comes out in DVD, to watch in my couch having some beers. BTW Since this is my first posting, lemme just say that movies like 'L'ulimto Bacio' i don't like, it's the typical Italian movie, Italians fell forced to watch, full of voer-.acting. Movies I like are almost all of 'Salvatores'... And I also like porno's, but that's another story

Texas is a vivid movie and I personally really liked it: acting is fresh rhythm is high, and the direction is interesting.

The movie is about the life in suburb little town of the rich, "great" but foggy north.

A bunch of guys try to escape the day-by-day boredom but each in a different way: there is who engage himself trying to accomplish the record of longest burp, who try to revenge his life through his work, who through her love life. Somebody escape to her marriage and somebody just escape by moving out.

The greatness of this movie lies in the introspection of each single character, even the secondary ones, by showing their passions, their tics, their fears, how they like or dislike each other. What they envy and what they hate.

Texas is not an easy movie though, the plot is complex and the rhythm is high, so if you miss some details you may miss some hidden cool sides of the movie, or end up thinking that nothing is happened.

If you're a Hollywood lover you'll probably dislike Texas, but if you think a movie is something more than flying bullets and noisy explosion, give this movie a shot.

Usually i don't go to see Italian movies because they're usually rubbish. But this time happened that my father Was invited to a kind of premiere in my town(lots of the scenes were filmed near my town as for some of the actor are from my town) i it was for free... so I went...although some interesting features of the directing, the story is terrible, not even believable, tragic and sad beyond any possible real situation (as for all the Italian films) a group of friend that are all jinxed. The script is empty and at the end of the film you get the feeling that nothing really happened...and you say: "and then?..." It's a film without message except that you feel very very lucky not being one of those characters!

The only positive features is that most of the actors are not professional actors, and some not even amateurs actors...

You should see it just to see how awful it is...

Texas is a startlingly amazing movie that resonates with life in the many small towns in today's United States--especially the restlessness yet simultaneous complacency! The director is an impressive storyteller. I highly recommend this terrific film. The acting is uniformly excellent--including the director himself and 2 of the screenwriters. This film deserves to get a release in America and hopefully will soon.

By the way, anyone who can't endure the first 60 minutes should stick to seeing the Hollywood paint-by-numbers crap that is coming out and leave innovative, exciting cinema to those who can appreciate it.

One review I read stated that "at the end of the film you get the feeling that nothing really happened...and you say: 'and then?'" That's interesting, because at the end of the film, my wife and I were both deeply moved by the apparent nothing that happened. The director had done a very good job in building up our conventional expectations, and the resolution he offered was exquisite, unexpected and banal, all at once. So, maybe "nothing happened" in the Hollywood sense but it made sense to us. And the "and then?" part occurred to me too, but not until the next morning, and it deepened by appreciation of the film (turned out that was the key question). "Texas" seems a bit too frenetic at times, but it was a memorable film.