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L'ultimo bacio (2001)
a beautiful movie about all of us
I reckon Gabriele Muccino has a great future ahead of him. Come te nessuno mai' his previous work - was a well-written, well-directed, fascinating movie. L'ultimo bacio' is even more beautiful. It can make you cry but it can also make you laugh. Its characters look like real people. Their lives are those of all of us. The tag line (the story of every love story') perfectly conveys the sense of this film: it is a universal story. I mean that, even though I'm younger than the protagonists (I'm 21), I feel the same as them. During the projection I was overcome by a stream of emotions. I felt that this movie was about my life, the life I'm living now, in the same way as it seemed to me that Come te nessuno mai' told the story of my schooldays. Moreover, the actors (Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefano Accorsi, Stefania Sandrelli, as well as all the others) are excellent. I just want to congratulate Muccino on his success. Go and see this movie, you'll fall in love with it!!! My vote: 9.
Orphans (1998)
uninteresting and disappointing
I like British films so much that I don't care who the author is, I just watch them because I enjoy their atmosphere and style. But this film was a mere disappointment. If "Orphans" was meant to be grotesque, the result is poor; if it meant to move the audience to tears (but I don't suppose this was its aim) the result is poor, too. The characters portrayed here are uninteresting: I don't see why so much attention should be focused on these four brothers living their mediocre lives, and doing their best to complicate matters the very night before their mother's funeral. Authors like Mike Leigh and Ken Loach have already showed us how to make common people's lives appealing on the screen. I guess Mullan should carefully examine his masters' works before directing another film.