Review of Respiro

Respiro (2002)
The ocean was sooo blue...
30 November 2003
Besides some really nice shots of the Mediterranean sea from the Italian cost, this movie has no other merit deserving praise. It is a docu-drama of a woman being treated as crazy because is not following the social and marital rules of this tribe-like communality; not an ordinary theme for an script, nor the first time it has been done, but, in this movie, the story goes nowhere. Also is stuffed with scenes and passages that bring nothing but distraction and discontinuity to the story and by doing that, the director wastes time instead of letting us know the why and how of things that should be important to make this movie rational, for example... why is she like that?, where is that village?, why does she treat her children like lovers?. Why the hell do they have hundreds of dogs in a concrete pit?

Incredible chaotic and pointless even for Italian films standards.
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