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It's a living cartoon. Flesh and bones: the computer is used to materialize the fantastic world of Pinocchio. There is much of Fellini in this film with a touch of Disney. Redundant of colors and music, rather faithful to Collodi's novel. It is not Benigni who plays Pinocchio, but Pinocchio that plays Benigni. The rest around him seems to vanish. Many cameos, many fast apparitions. Nicoletta Braschi is the Blue Fairy, Kim Red Stuart is Lucignolo. Peppe Barra is great in his role of the Cricket and Aldo Giuffre (Geppetto) seeds carsima also in the short distance. Danilo Donati flies towards an Oscar. Dresses and scenes are great. Gadgets beyond making Benigni a millionaire, bring back in families the ancient habits. When children were falling asleep into a dream.

Was it true love? God only knows. She loved him, very much. Crazy for love. He was really crazy, he did not strain that much. Dino and Sibilla, lovers of a century as soon as bloomed. A brilliant poet, Dino Campana and a writer of success, Sibilla Aleramo. The screen colors of a tenuous yellow small cuttlefish, dominates the shadows, only light splashes. And two great actors: Stefano Accorsi and Laura Morante.

Antonia and Massimo lead one normal and apparently satisfactory life. Massimo dies in a street incident and Antonia slowly discovers the relationship between her defunct husband and a lover. Accidentally, in fact, she finds a picture dedicated to her husband by his lover. Antonia starts to search the person and discovers that Massimo's lover is a man, Michele.

In this film Ozpetek tells the contrast between the grey bourgeois life made of conventions and lies and the colored existence of a group of persons that lives in complete freedom, one multi ethnic community of homosexuals and trans. Ozpetek seems to say true life is far away from the conventions and from the comforts, and he finds an example in the coloured kitchen where Antonia knows Michele (her husband's lover) and where the community of persons lives. Michele is part of it. Freedom is breathed and joy even if not always the situations allows to smile. In this film you can admire two of the best new actors of the Italian cinema, Margherita Buy (Antonia) and Stefano Accorsi (Michele).