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Dhilal al sammt (2006)iMDB Rating: 6.3
Date Released : 27 August 2006
Genre : Drama
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You Tell Me (2006)iMDB Rating: 5.2
Date Released : 8 December 2006
Genre : Comedy
Stars : Joshua Cary, David Ledoux, Bryan Fenkart, Maren Hefler. Ever think that your best friend's girlfriend isn't the most attractive of people? Ever suspect that your own girlfriend could be cheating on you? Ever wonder if the voice in your head might be lying to you? Meet Jeff, Flint and Gray. Though he never has a shortage of advice to unload on his friends, Jeff finds it hard to help himself when he discovers the infidelities of his girlfriend and his ..." />
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Ever think that your best friend's girlfriend isn't the most attractive of people? Ever suspect that your own girlfriend could be cheating on you? Ever wonder if the voice in your head might be lying to you? Meet Jeff, Flint and Gray. Though he never has a shortage of advice to unload on his friends, Jeff finds it hard to help himself when he discovers the infidelities of his girlfriend and his mother on the same day. To make matters worse, Jeff's best friend Flint picks that day to move in with him after recently being dumped. After vowing never to date again, Flint meets Sophie, a girl he can actually get serious about, and who is somehow impressed with his career as a children's birthday party clown. But Jeff knows something about Sophie's past that could lead Flint to doubt his own feelings. All the while, Gray is desperately trying to find his place in life, becoming fearful of his girlfriend's impending success in the art world, and taking adult education courses like 'Become a ...

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And I'm not saying this for my health...

I'm new to New York and my girlfriend and I really enjoy doing "NYC things" every once in a while. So... we went to a Yankee game in September, the MET in October, the Thanksgiving Day Parade in November, ice skating at Rockefeller Center in December and a film festival last month. Every activity more fun than the next... However, I'm a movie kind of guy and really enjoyed the film festival the best. A movie called "You Tell Me" was the feature we enjoyed the most. I'm sure I missed some of the film because I was busy laughing over a lot of the dialogue. I remember thinking that this movie that I had never heard of is funnier than most of the big studio flicks they mass produce and make hundreds of millions of dollars out these days. My girlfriend and I also liked it because one of the characters in the film was just like a friend of ours, so weird. So, if you like romantic comedies, movies in general or just want to do a "NYC thing", go see "You Tell Me"... and I'm not saying this for my health.

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Strawberry Shortcakes (2006)iMDB Rating: 7.3
Date Released : 19 July 2007
Genre : Drama
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Quietly moving film

Strawberry Shortcakes tells the story of two pairs of women: Akiyo, an escort/prostitute, and Satoko, receptionist at Akiyo's escort agency. On the other hand we have Toko, a graphic artist who rents a room to office girl Chihiro.

The film looks at the idea of loneliness in the big city, where meaningful relationships are difficult. Akiyo wants to commit suicide because the man she loves isn't interested in her. Satoko dreams of being loved by anyone but her creepy boss. Toko tries to forget her former boyfriend by immersing herself in her work, and Chihiro hopes to marry a selfish loser.

As the film progresses the two pairs of women make friends: Akiyo and Satoko on the one hand, Toko and Chihiro on the other, and as the friendships develop the need to find love/marriage becomes less important.

Slow, deliberate and revealing, I found this film one of the most moving films I have seen in the last few years.

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Lounge Act (2006)iMDB Rating: 6.0
Date Released : 10 September 2006
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Stars : Neal Andrews, Jorge Arriaga, Sarah Virginia Brock, Scott Brown
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Two friends attempt to assert themselves on the local music scene while looking for something more in their lives. Ultimately they find redemption in places they least expected.

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Reunited (2006)Genre : Drama
Stars : Traci Askins, Steve Ericson, Whitney Evans, Daric Gates
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"Reunited" is an ensemble drama that shows the turbulent truth behind the idyllic facade of life in a small Midwestern college town. We follow several characters whose lives are ruled by their pasts-a girl struggling to support herself as she tries to break the cycle of abuse; a star football player whose bad behavior is the result of a lifelong grudge; a professor growing less content with her marriage; among others-until one violent night when they all collide, and the consequences can be put off no longer.

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Kya Tum Ho (2006)Date Released : 10 December 2006
Genre : Drama
Stars : Sulabha Arya, Jyoti Dogra, Jogi, Rajit Kapoor. A young widow and young software engineer try to navigate through their eventless 'ordinary' lives in an attempt to exorcise scars of a violent past. The film explores how internet's virtual world is positioned in the lives of Indian lower middle class. Internet chat serves in the film as a platform for the protagonists, who live through half-truths, falsifying their gender, their lives cross ..." />
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A young widow and young software engineer try to navigate through their eventless 'ordinary' lives in an attempt to exorcise scars of a violent past. The film explores how internet's virtual world is positioned in the lives of Indian lower middle class. Internet chat serves in the film as a platform for the protagonists, who live through half-truths, falsifying their gender, their lives cross paths in real and move towards a dramatic climax.

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The Zombie Diaries (2006)iMDB Rating: 4.1
Date Released : 6 May 2008
Genre : Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars : Scott Ainslie, Toby Bowman, Victoria Summer, Juliet Forester. In the early part of the 21st century, an unknown deadly virus is spreading among the population. The planet becomes infested with a new threat unlike any other The Undead. Three compelling video diaries chart the beginning of the plague through the last days of the apocalypse. In the first, a documentary film crew traveling the countryside becomes caught in the outbreak and are forced to survive..." />
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In the early part of the 21st century, an unknown deadly virus is spreading among the population. The planet becomes infested with a new threat unlike any other The Undead. Three compelling video diaries chart the beginning of the plague through the last days of the apocalypse. In the first, a documentary film crew traveling the countryside becomes caught in the outbreak and are forced to survive at all costs. In the second, a husband and wife flee London and meet a mysterious hitchhiker, scavenging the remnants of dead towns where shadows lurk at every turn. In the third, a group of survivors escape the virus, making their way to a farm for refuge, only to find themselves attacked by the creatures who now rule the night.

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I have seen them all, this was the worst

Being a child of the 80's I grew up on horror, everything from Freddy to Pinhead (and of course my favorite, Jason). I remember being 7 years old and watching Dawn of the Dead, it freaked me out, I had nightmares for weeks, even seeing it when I was 25 it still freaked me out. After that I became a zombie freak, Night of the living dead, Dawn of the dead, Day of the dead, Return of the living dead and more recently the 28 films became some of my favorites. Seeing the trailer for this film I thought it looked great, I knew it was a low budget film but this didn't bother me, seeing that some of my favorite films are low budget "b" films. When I saw it in the store I grabbed it and payed $14 (even though i usually buy used films much cheaper) for it seeing that I was already interested in the film and it was attractively packaged. That night I put it in kicked back with a beer and anticipated some awesome zombie fun. Boy was I wrong, this film was simply horrible, the acting was poor the story was non-existent and the quality was straight garbage, seemingly an attempt at a blairwitch type video camera affect and a total copy of the concept off diary of the dead (which wasn't great but is eons better than this), but with no plot. This film is unworthy of even existing, I own over 600 films and and love everything from evil dead to good fellas, night of the comet to American beauty and I can honestly tell you that i feel like destroying this film because it is a disgrace to my collection, avoid it at all cost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Code 36 (2006)iMDB Rating: 3.8
Date Released : 1 December 2006
Genre : Drama
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Consequences (2006)iMDB Rating: 3.3
Date Released : 1 March 2006
Genre : Thriller
Stars : Evy Bjorn, Ernest E. Brown, Chris Cannon, Marques Chaney. Consequences introduces us to Max, Jimmy, Norm, Nick and Jason at the age of eighteen. Friends since early childhood, they have bonded deeper than natural brothers. As eighteen-year-old men, we share with them their dreams, loves, and friendships as well as life's hopes and frustrations. We, once again, meet them at age forty and learn how their lives have unfolded as we experience their ..." />
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Consequences introduces us to Max, Jimmy, Norm, Nick and Jason at the age of eighteen. Friends since early childhood, they have bonded deeper than natural brothers. As eighteen-year-old men, we share with them their dreams, loves, and friendships as well as life's hopes and frustrations. We, once again, meet them at age forty and learn how their lives have unfolded as we experience their marriages, strengths and disappointments. Together they are capable of celebrating with each other their emotions in an open and honest fashion. The group is together now on their annual football weekend, this year in Philadelphia. While bonding and enjoying the vibrant nightlife, they become separated only to find a darkness they have never known. It becomes a struggle of life or death. The friends find themselves disconnected from each other but ultimately gain a stronger respect for one another than they ever thought possible. Realizing that everyone must pay the price, they all have to deal with ...

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Welcome to the Gay Hostel?

Wow. Not sure where to begin with this one. It wasn't what I was expecting, that is for certain. In fact, for about the first 45 minutes of the film, I was pondering why it was even classified as horror on Netflix, as it was about the farthest thing from horror I have seen. However, the film almost immediately shifts tone and focus about halfway through and becomes a extreme "Hostel" wannabe. Unfortunaley, it is not a very good one.

The film centers on five middle-age guys who have been friends since high school. Now most are married and have kids, they all still know each other extremely well, including dirty secrets, such as infidelities and other degenerate behavior over the years. One evening, the decide to go into downtown Philadelphia for an annual football get together. Instead, two of the guys seek out women to have sex with (even though they are married). The others sit around and bitch about their unfaithful, sex-hungry pals while getting drunk. Unfortunately for the two who sought sex, they wake up chained to beds on a small, isolated room. Soon, a group of shady guys (and gals) reveal themselves and being to torture the two in very graphic and sexual ways.

The Good: Um.................some decent looking guys with hot bodies who are naked for the second half of the film to look at?

The Bad: Everything else. The whole gay element that is played up in this film is the last thing that bothered me (trust me there). It's the fact that this is a incompetently directed, poorly acted, and horribly written film. As I mentioned, the film completely shifts tone halfway through...at a point where I suspect most have stopped watching due to the sheer boringness of the first half of the film. The acting is atrocious, particularly from the guy who portrays the main villain. His screaming, tyrannical rants are cring-worthy they are so bad. The guys who are being tortured really, most of the time, act like they could care less. Characters do stupid things. Note: If your captor is actually being nice to you and helping you smoke a cigarette while explaining what you need to do to survive, it is probably NOT a good thing to shove that same cigarette into his face WHILE YOU ARE STILL CHAINED TO THE BED! Once the torture starts, it is somewhat brutal, I suppose. The two are anally raped, have their genitals mutilated, and are cut and sliced various ways. There is definitely a blatant gay undertone to this film, so if that bothers you, avoid. The ending is.....well....strange for lack of a better word and really left a bad-taste in my mouth. It certainly didn't pack the punch that I suspect the filmmakers thought it would. On top of all this, the film looks cheap and amateurish and the direction is unfocused and lazy. And most of the time with these types of films, they are effective because the audience has an investment in or liking of at least one of the characters. The writer made these characters such jerks and unflattering individuals that we don't care what happens to any of them.

This is NOT an enjoyable film to watch, not because of the violence, but because of how much of a mess it is. It tries way too hard to shock toward the end and fails because everything we see, including the performances, look so unrealistic and phony that we don't buy any of what is happening in the first place.

My Grade: F

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Svein og rotta (2006)iMDB Rating: 5.4
Date Released : 15 October 2006
Genre : Family
Stars : Thomas Saraby Vatle, Luis Engebrigtsen Bye, Celine Louise Dyran Smith, Benjamin Gulli." />
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The Little Death (2006)iMDB Rating: 7.2
Date Released : 17 June 2006
Genre : Thriller
Stars : Laura Lee Bahr, Chris Butler, Regan Forman, Mandy Freund. Seventeen years ago Sam's father hid a mysterious box in the walls of apartment 1412, and now Sam has come to Los Angeles to claim it. But the rooms have been renumbered, and the hunt soon leads Sam into the world of an eccentric young woman." />
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Seventeen years ago Sam's father hid a mysterious box in the walls of apartment 1412, and now Sam has come to Los Angeles to claim it. But the rooms have been renumbered, and the hunt soon leads Sam into the world of an eccentric young woman.

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Dark and intriguing - and a bit surreal...

PLOT: Sam comes to this apartment building, having been waiting years to move into a particular apartment - where his father lived 20 years ago and may have left something for him.

When he moves in, he finds out the floors have been renumbered, and it's actually the apartment above his that he wants, which draws him into the difficult life of the woman, or perhaps women, who live upstairs.

Nicely done and very atmospheric, particularly for a small independent film. The black and white cinematography is quite effective, giving this a very nice "film noir" feel, and while it feels surreal for much of the movie, in a sort of David Lynch kind of way, the movie does come to a satisfying, if not fully explained, ending.

The acting was very good, from the understated but compelling Sam, to the truly charming, yet pathetic, Audrey and Angel, and even to the overly hearty cop and the effusive, movie-obsessed, foreign apartment manager, Staci/Buddy.

Overall, a nice piece of work. Oh, and watch through the credits - the animation is really cool, and fills in some of the backstory. And the caricatures of the characters in the movie are impressive - usually animated attempts to "capture" real people turn out kind of lame.

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Sucker Lake Park (2006)iMDB Rating: 7.5
Date Released : 7 February 2006
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars : Lee Adams, Bonni Allen, Adena Brumer, Meredith Campbell
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Brian Flemming lives a typical middle-class life: he has a wife, kids, a mortgage payments, and a dog. When Brian's job is jeopardized by his boss, he takes a look at what he's built up over the past fifteen years and decides to forgo his nine-to-five job to initiate a friendship with a brash young kid named Rudy. Eventually, Brian's crazy decisions bring everything crashing down around him.

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Anino ng setyembre (2006)Date Released : 12 September 2007
Genre : Drama
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Nada sô sô (2006)iMDB Rating: 6.9
Date Released : 30 September 2006
Genre : Drama, Romance
Stars : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masami Nagasawa, Kumiko Asô, Eiichirô Funakoshi. 8-year old Yotaro gains a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru, when his mother marries a jazz musician who plays in a club in Naha, Okinawa where they live. Before long Kaoru's father deserts them, and not long afterward Yota's mother becomes terminally ill. Her dying wish is for him to watch out for Kaoru at his grandmother's place on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. He fulfills her wish and ..." />
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8-year old Yotaro gains a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru, when his mother marries a jazz musician who plays in a club in Naha, Okinawa where they live. Before long Kaoru's father deserts them, and not long afterward Yota's mother becomes terminally ill. Her dying wish is for him to watch out for Kaoru at his grandmother's place on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. He fulfills her wish and becomes very protective of his younger sister who calls him "nee-nee." Thirteen years later Kaoru returns to Naha and comes to live with him as she starts high school. Yota works hard making deliveries of vegetables from an open-air market by day, and in a restaurant (he is a licensed chef) by night to save money to fulfill his dream of having his own restaurant. He also assumes the role of pushing for Kaoru's entrance to a university. This allows less time for his beautiful girlfriend Keiko, the daughter of a doctor and a medical student at Ryukyu University. It seems that Yota's dreams start ...

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A Nutshell Review: Nada So So

Nada So So, loosely translated as Tears For You, broke box office records in Japan last year. It's a romance story, so its box office clout is no surprise, especially when starring teenage idols Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Waterboys) and Masami Nagasawa (Crying Out Love from the Center of the World, Robocon). Given the screening I attended today was a full house, and almost everyone female, I guess I'm one of the rare few in the theatre who's there to watch Masami in her new movie, as I confess I'm totally smitten by that sunshine smile of hers.

Directed by Nobuhiro Doi, who helmed one of my favourite movies of 2005

• Be With You, Nada So So tells the story of the Shingaki siblings -

Yota (Satoshi) and Kaoru (Masami). Left to fend for themselves at a very young age as their father had abandoned them, and their mom left for the heavens, these two half-siblings have only each other, with Yota taking on a surrogate father-like role in looking after Kaoru, working intense shifts and different jobs in order to pay for her education. As vowed on their mother's deathbed, he is obligated to provide the best for her, and does so almost to the extreme.

It serves as a reminder not to overwork oneself, and to take time to smell the roses. Kaoru, having been brought up in a small island, makes it to the mainland in Okinawa, and her physical presence in her brother's life brings about an added dimension to her brother's love life with girlfriend Keiko (Kumiko Aso). You see, while they are siblings, they aren't blood relations, and therefore to some, there are some (sexual) tensions between the two although they would like to discount it. People around them do feel, and while it's against natural order to those who are unaware of the true nature of their relations, these two do keep their feelings well under wraps.

In fact, there's nothing too "wow" about the narrative, as any seasoned romantic film lover will be able to stay one or two steps well ahead of the story development. I'd come to think that the formula has been so tried and tested, anyone can transplant similar stories, with just an update in setting, premise, having different characters, and tada, a new movie. Okinawa provides plenty of picturesque scenes for the movie, and they are well utilized.

Both Satoshi Tsumabuki and Masami Nagasawa bring vivid credibility to their characters, layering them with as much complexities as possible, often done through subtle gestures - that twinkle in the eye, that wry smile. Their chemistry as siblings is totally believable, as are their feelings for each other which they try desperately hard to hide. They make it believable for an audience to sympathize with their predicament, and showcased their ability to exhibit their brotherly-sisterly love for each other, as well as their attempts to hide behind veiled confessions and declarations. This might be a biased statement - but I thought Masami shuttled her Kaoru character with ease, between country bumpkin and smart sister, between that smiling happy girl and that sad depressing feeling of not being able to love someone the way she wants to.

As always, there are numerous opportunities about for anyone soft hearted enough to fall prey to emptying their tear ducts from sad scenes, or scenes that want to elicit that response from you, so bring along some Kleenex just in case. In the screening I attended, there was no lack of sniffles and sobs heard all around.

Do remember to stay throughout the end credits, as the theme song gets played over a montage sequence of photographs from that photo album, and finishes off with a very beautiful picture of Masami in a kimono central to the final act. Also, you'll be rewarded with a bonus scene right at the end.

For the romantics out there, it's a little different in that it's not your usual boy-girl relationship, but it's love as strong nonetheless.

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Zaman mi-istad (2006)iMDB Rating: 4.3
Date Released : 24 October 2006
Genre : Drama
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Mama i tata (2006)iMDB Rating: 5.4
Date Released : 30 January 2007
Genre : Drama
Stars : Sabina Bambur, Zagorka Borota, Vjekoslav Ramljak
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The year is two thousand and something. An elderly couple live alone in a flat in Sarajevo, with their own rituals: drinking coffee, playing cards, watching TV. The husband (Dad) has had a stroke and although he is still physically strong, he has difficulties in communication. The wife (Mum) is a lively elderly lady who is, after 50 years, now using the husbands disability to change the things around in this old-fashioned, patriarchal family. Dad must not allow that and he opposes it in the only way he can, with physical force.

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Uno su due (2006)iMDB Rating: 6.6
Date Released : 2 March 2007
Genre : Drama
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The risk pays off

At this point in the Italian series at Lincoln Center it was a relief just to encounter a film about real people involved in situations one could care about. 'One Out of Two' ('Uno su due') is about chances—or at least the title is—and it takes some chances itself, risking banality or sentimentality, and coming through with a film worth seeing. The lives and people Cappuccio depicts are plausible, and he makes them engaging and specific. His 'I Truly Respect You' was shown in the series two years ago, a corporate comedy about alternative lives. This time the contemporary urban existence is again in the foreground, but this is about one man, his life, and what he can do with it.

The hero is Lorenzo (Fabio Volo, an appealing everyman who slightly resembles the young Jack Lennon), a guy who has everything going for him—great job, beautiful girlfriend, best pal as a partner, amazing apartment, prospect of making millions of euros—and then all of a sudden he collapses in the street. He winds up in the neurosurgery section of a hospital and as he awaits the results of tests, realizes that his whole life is changed. There is a beautiful little performance by former Pasolini protégé Ninetto Davoli as Giovanni, a Roman truck driver who as Lorenzo's hospital roommate reveals a deep understanding of what makes Lorenzo tick and how this kind of situation must be faced. Giovanni has not lived a good life himself, but faced with serious illness, he has grown up and become a real mensch.

Samuel Johnson famously said, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Likewise, the knowledge that one has one chance out of two of having a fatal condition makes one reconsider one's life and one's values. This homely lesson could lead to cliché and sentimentality and often does. The secret is how much wit and specificity a writer and a filmmaker can introduce to make such a story work, and Cappuccio's previous film, though a bit labored, wasn't short on good humor.

"Rattenuto" is Lorenzo's sister's coinage for how he and she have been whenever they get together. What she means by it is a combination of shrunken and held back—in his case, probably by an all-consuming focus on a glorious future at the expense of the present. Yes, Lorenzo's threat of illness is going to make him live in the moment. After he's released from the hospital he's lost at home for a while. His girlfriend senses that he has no use for her and she leaves his beautiful apartment (not yet paid for) with its expansive view of the city of Genoa. He is lost.

Then Lorenzo goes to the office where he confronts his longtime friend and law partner Paolo (Giuseppe Battiston) about the big deal they've been planning with the Russians which is going to make them filthy rich. That turns out to be an illusion, for now anyway, and shortly thereafter Lorenzo has borrowed his sister's car and gone on a trip.

This isn't Kurosawa's 'Ikiru': 'One of Two' hasn't that sort of profundity and scope, but Lorenzo, like Kurosawa's Mr. Watanabe, may not have long to live, and he wants to do something decent and worthwhile. He goes to Umbria. Lorenzo's journey is transformative, yet delightfully specific. He meets a young woman and her mother. He does something physically risky and thrilling that he's never done before. He gets caught in a heavy rainstorm and stays up all night. He brings some people together who had forgotten how much thy love each other. And, of course, he lets go—stops being "rattenuto" and begins to smile. Davoli reappears briefly, but mainly his early appearances are simply a good memory that hovers over this appealing little film. There are some longeurs, but they are forgivable, because after all this story is about stopping and taking a look at things. This is not extraordinary film-making, and there's nothing especially unique about the style, but this is straightforward, honest work, about things that matter. And the film is brightened not just by the iconic performance by Davoli, but by the appealing presence of Fabio Volo, and the others in the cast, notably Tresy Taddei as the young woman. Another nice feature is a fresh soundtrack that avoids being cute or saccharine even though it uses Burt Bacharach in a way that sounds like elevator music.

Shown as part of the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series at Lincoln Center, June 2007.