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Before Sunset (2004)
Simple and Perfect
When I first saw Before Sunrise, I got caught by the performance and most of it by the story. I was a teenager, and to see that so romantic story in those ages, makes you search in your love life for that romanticism. After the ages, like the two characters, I have had a lot of "problems" in my love life for that reason, specially to get sex... They realize that such romanticism is impossible to keep, and they grow as adults also. But thank god or whoever, the second part of that marvelous movie exists, and that gaves us another vision of the romanticism and of the love stories. The second part is much more mature, much more bitter, but also much more realistic. In my opinion the fist one is very very nice, and a marvelous love story, but this second part is even better, for it's bitter vision of the "tragedy" of love. Well, I coud have written a lot more about this, but not now. Just say: Thank you Richard, thank you Ethan, and special thanks for Julie, 'cause you give us splendid songs!
Il cuore e la spada (1998)
Following Joseph bedier's book
The movie is a good adaptation of the legend told by Joseph bedier in his book. The universal tale of impossible love, the medieval Romeo and Juliet. Not too bad for a TV production, and a bit long because the movie reflects all the books chapters more or less. The battle scenes are quite poor though. The story could become an excellent movie with more ambitious producers. I think that another movie exits about the same legend, but I don't remember exactly the title, maybe Tristano e Isotta in Italian.
On the other hand, is a good way of knowing the hole story if you don't have time to read the novel, but if you can, read it, you'll take more profit.