Cinema Paradiso - Modern Classic Review 

I really, passionately LOVE this film. Because I got to know it in the wake of my Italian class at school and it taught me a lot about Italian spirit and its people. Then years later I always remembered it as this love letter to film and cinema. And now I rewatched it as a student of language and culture (Italian and English) and Suddenly understood all the historical meanings and the background and it has gained even more significance and emotional value to me. Plus the music is a masterpiece.

Philippe Noiret (Alfredo), Jacques Perrin (Totò - Adult) and Brigitte Fossey (Elena - adult, but she's only in the director's cut) are french actors, that's maybe why they are dubbed. The music by Ennio Morricone is wonderful.

In Italy, movies, for decades, were filmed without sound, and all dialogue was dubbed in. I know this was done well into the 1990s, I don't know if this is still the case today, tho.

Imagine if you ended it on it "needed more lasers"

Greetings from an Italian fan! Have you seen "life is beautiful "?

Born and grew up (late 60’s) in the town of pop. ~2,000 in southern Italy not far from where this was filmed. I was Toto's age when I moved here. The director was spot-on just about everything.

Re the dubbing, I think that's how they did it in Italian films back in those days, recording all the audio in a studio rather than on set. There's an excellent film about the process called 'Berberian Sound Studio' starring Toby Jones, if you're interested

My Dad LOVES this film

I watched this movie for the first time yesterday and I confess that I used to be kinda ashamed because is such a classic. The last scene is very beautiful, it was emotional to me.

The dubbing thing might be like how in Asian drama where they dub over actors with a more regional or strong accent with a more common or urban accent. Kind of like if in the UK we were to dub over strong accents from say Lancashire or Cornwall with English RP.

This happened with Japanese super hero shows I used to watch! They dub over the fight footage (in costume) and it would be too expensive to record sound at EVERY location, so up until the 2000's every show had the actors dub over themselves in every scene. Its funny when they want to change a line and they can't even match their own lips lol -Matt

My media teacher in school showed us this movie and i didnt 'get' it, but she also showed us Memento which began my love for Christopher Nolan But i think back to it any time i think about kissing censorship in movies or how Film works. Thats all i remember. It felt like an italian version of citizen kane (in story type at least)

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best kiss scene in any film

5:12 - Too late. I have the DVD. Please don't hit me!!!

Regarding Me And Earl And The Dying Girl I tend more to the Mark Kermode viewpoint: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V_rz5K8iZGM.html

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People love this movie with a serious passion, but I have to admit it doesn't do much for me. It's rather sentimental. The main kid is cutesty/annoying in just the cliched ways you'd expect him to be and he doesn't grow up to be very likeable. Is it unfair to call this a multiplex-goer's idea of an art film? Maybe. I've been persuaded to see it a couple of times at least but repeat viewings don't add much, even though there's a director's cut which enlarges a lot on the middle section, when he's a young man.