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Cinema Paradiso
1988 2h 4m PG
Drama
,
Romance
8.5
90%
96%
85%
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
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Directed By
Giuseppe Tornatore
Written By
Vanna Paoli
Studio
RAI
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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)
Enzo Cannavale
Spaccafico
Isa Danieli
Anna
Leo Gullotta
Ignazio, usher
Pupella Maggio
Maria Di Vita (aged)
Leopoldo Trieste
Father Adelfio
Tano Cimarosa
Fabbro, blacksmith
Nicola Di Pinto
Village idiot
Roberta Lena
Lia
Nino Terzo
Peppino's Father
Turi Giuffrida
Mariella Lo Giudice
Giorgio Libassi
Beatrice Palme
Ignazio Pappalardo
Angela Leontini
Mimmo Mignemi
Turi Killer
Angelo Tosto
Franco Catalano
Brigitte Fossey
Elena Mendola (adult) (in Director's cut) (uncredited)
Giuseppe Tornatore
Projectionist (uncredited)
Nellina Lagana
Margherita Mignemi
Giuseppe Pellegrino
Concetta Borpagano
Cinema Paradiso Reviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
As it turns out, you can go home again.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Still rapturous after all these years, Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990.
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.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This film is sometimes funny, sometimes joyful, and sometimes poignant, but it's always warm, wonderful, and satisfying.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
This version's no classic like its predecessor, but its pleasures are still plentiful.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
For the most part, this hamfisted movie is very enjoyable.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It is, in a word, exquisite.
L.A. Weekly
Dan 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.
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.
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