In my rating scheme, I am beginning to move up the slot for Italian movies, quite close to the French. A couple of masterpieces are the reason for this ‘falling-in-love-all-over-again’ phenomenon.
Don’t Tell/2005
Imagine watching a movie with a couple of really annoying strangers in your backseat. They talk in loud voices, laugh at inappropriate times and don’t care if they are disturbing you. Well, that’s to give you an idea of the atmosphere of
this movie screening. To explain further, there was something wrong with audio in the discs.The technicians didn’t get that at first and were tooling around every possible piece of equipment. When nothing worked and no voice emanated, they hit on a audio channel that had the italian directors commentary. They thought , “Ah, we got the audio!” and left us, watching the entire movie with the commentary. Thank Goodness, it was in Italian. I slowly trained my ears to shut off . All thanks to the really great movie. If the movie had been any less beautiful, I might have screamed and left… Well, at least left! It handled some very sensitive topics in such a neat manner. Natural performances by each of the characters. The wit and irony in one of the last scenes just bowls you over. I think this movie taught me something deep… To get some meaningful things, you sometimes have to put up with a lot of nonsense but it all still makes perfect sense in the end.
What will happen to us/2004
A truly hilarious piece of comedy about three high schoolers.
In the first few scenes, it gave a very unique perspective on the student life there.
It had some awesome pieces of dialogue. Here’s a quick conversation between the examiners and a student in the movie. It’s an oral exam and the examiner sizes up the student and says:
“I am going to make this easier for us. Please talk about about anything you want”
“Oh yes, I know about World War 1.. It started with the extermination of a prince person.”
“Assassination!”
“The war was born on June 14, 1928 ..No,no June 28,1914..”
“A war is born? and then it dies? It breaks out!”
The examiners nod their heads in disbelief.
I imagine what fun it must be for teachers, if they really take the time to read some of the papers we write!
The characterization of the trio is remarkable. Their personalities share nothing in common other than their friendship and still stay so connected till the end. There is another character that stands in stone in your mind. ‘How a journey changes the life of these friends forever’ is told in a very funny, moving manner.
Here’s another excerpt:They are finding a place to stay at the last minute in Greece and only get a run-down place . It has some very quirky rules like the toilet hours: Morning 7-9 and Evening 7-9. One character sees this and says,” What? Should I be in diapers the rest of the time?”
It has me in stitches every time I think of it!
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