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Cinema Paradiso
Directed by
Giuseppe Tornatore
PG
1990
2h 4m
Drama
,
Romance
8.5
90%
96%
8.4
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Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
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Cast of Cinema Paradiso
Philippe Noiret
Alfredo
Jacques Perrin
Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (adult)
Marco Leonardi
Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (teen)
Salvatore Cascio
Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (child)
Agnese Nano
Elena Mendola (teen) / Elena's daughter (in Director's cut)
Antonella Attili
Maria Di Vita (young)
Pupella Maggio
Maria Di Vita (aged)
Enzo Cannavale
Spaccafico
Isa Danieli
Anna
Leo Gullotta
Ignazio, usher
Leopoldo Trieste
Father Adelfio
Tano Cimarosa
Fabbro, blacksmith
Nicola Di Pinto
Village idiot
Roberta Lena
Lia
Nino Terzo
Peppino's Father
Turi Giuffrida
Mimmo Mignemi
Mariella Lo Giudice
Giorgio Libassi
Beatrice Palme
Cinema Paradiso Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
The heightened symmetry of this new/old Cinema Paradiso makes the film a fuller experience, like an old friend haunted by the exigencies of time.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
In the director's cut, the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush, all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The film's final hour, where nearly all the previous unseen material resides, is unconvincing soap opera that Tornatore was right to cut.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Still rapturous after all these years, Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Where the original release was an essay in childish delight and adolescent longing, topped off by a muted coda implying that you really can go home again, the reissue is a fully realized epic of the heart.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
As it turns out, you can go home again.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
I don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. But I do.
L.A. Weekly
Daniel Fienberg
This version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for true, lived experience.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The new version isn't just endless. It heightens the deeply conservative spirit of Giuseppe Tornatore's fable in a surprising new way.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
More romantic, more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It is, in a word, exquisite.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
For the most part, this hamfisted movie is very enjoyable.
Film.com
John Hartl
Anyone who feels as attached to the history of movies as Tornatore obviously does, there are more than enough irresistible moments.
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