15.CINEMA PARADISO (1988)

15.CINEMA PARADISO (1988)

Language- Italian (Italy)

Genre- Drama

Director- Giuseppe Tornatore

*ing-  Philippe Noiret (Alfredo), Jacques Perrin (Salvatore Di Vita (adult))

PLOT

                                                           On a calm evening an old mother called for his son who is living in Rome, which is miles away from her home town, only to inform that a man named Alfredo has died. Salvatore Di Vita, who returns to home after his heavy work came to know from his girlfriend, about the death news of Alfredo. When she enquires about him, Salvatore flashes to his memories.

                                                         A six-year old boy who is mischievous, intelligent and a son of the war widow, discovers his love towards movies from a local theatre, cinema paradiso. The local projectionist, Alfredo finds him as a nuisance and tries to avoid him due to his naughty nature, but as much as he tries to avoid the small boy that much itself he is attracted towards the projector and reel. Alfredo promised the boy to take him to the projector room in return for a help in an exam, as the days progress their bond also develops, the fatherless boy finds a parent like caring from this oldman.  There begins the relationship between the boy and the Oldman, which shows some relations are far beyond blood.

                                                  Cinema Paradiso was a critical and box-office success and is regarded by many as a classic. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, and also receives Cannes Film Festival Award.  If you try to explain the word beauty in relation with movies then the best example will be Cinema Paradiso. The kind of feeling it develops in a viewer is so mesmerizing. The special montage scene in the climax were all sentimental which will make a mark in all our hearts. If you are missing this one then it will be a great loss for you because you are missing one of the masterpiece and a movie which changed the entire Italian film industry.