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Baarìa from Giuseppe Tornatore disappoints expectations

Baarìa from Giuseppe Tornatore disappoints expectations

Simone Spoladori (September 3, 2009)

New Tornatore's movie is very disappointing. Baarìa is too full of things and lacks unity of screenplay.

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Baarìa, directed by former Accademy Award Winner Giuseppe Tornatore, opened yesterday night 66th edition of Venice Film Festival.


Unfortunately I have to say new Tornatore's movie is very disappointing. Baarìa is really too full of things. Too many charcaters, too many shots, sounds, music, dialogues. Everything is excessive. Actors - main characters are two young making their debut, Francesco Scianna and Margareth Madé, surrounded by a plenty of italian stars in small roles - are always over the top and emphatic, always supported by hundreth Ennio Morricone's score, extremely conventional and monotonous.
Unfortunately, Baarìa is flat exactly in the only section where should have been pregnant to hold together all these things, that is screenplay. In fact, the script written by Tornatore himself, lacks unity and seems an infinte gallery of small untied sights, often put together by careless dip-to-black dissolve.
The movie has cost 25 millions € and has been produced by Medusa Film, belonging to premier Silvio Berlusconi, and probably for those institutional relationships has been chosen for the opening night of the festival, in spite of being one of the worst Tornatore's movie.
Now I'm going to view Videocracy, a swedish documentary about our contoversial premier Berlusconi, and then, tonight, The Road, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel-masterpiece.
Stay tuned.

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