I've just watched this film for the 2nd time with the original audio. 8 years ago at the cinema I watched the italian version and I rated it 9/10. Which was far from bad given my average ratings - as you can check - but now I feel that someway I wasn't able to capture all the precious things that can be found in this masterpiece.
Actually I have to consider it one of my favourite movies. Masterfully shot and written: puzzling, thought provoking, elegant, funny and moving.
It's undeniably mostly an intellectual pleasure - though always tightly linked to the senses that cinema can tickle - and it can turn off the average viewer . For most people, it could even mean it is a bad movie or - as Stravinsky supposedly said - just proves that intellectuals have no taste. I think that's bs, but I wouldn't care anyways.
If you like poetry and are not afraid to dedicate some time thinking about youth (and old age), being human, memories, beauty, life and death, this is a great movie. Ofc everything other than writing and direction is equally as good as it gets.
Towards the end there are a couple of scenes I don't understand and I'd really like to have Sorrentino explain them... or maybe not: it might spoil the rest... Let's just thank P. S. for existing.
Actually I have to consider it one of my favourite movies. Masterfully shot and written: puzzling, thought provoking, elegant, funny and moving.
It's undeniably mostly an intellectual pleasure - though always tightly linked to the senses that cinema can tickle - and it can turn off the average viewer . For most people, it could even mean it is a bad movie or - as Stravinsky supposedly said - just proves that intellectuals have no taste. I think that's bs, but I wouldn't care anyways.
If you like poetry and are not afraid to dedicate some time thinking about youth (and old age), being human, memories, beauty, life and death, this is a great movie. Ofc everything other than writing and direction is equally as good as it gets.
Towards the end there are a couple of scenes I don't understand and I'd really like to have Sorrentino explain them... or maybe not: it might spoil the rest... Let's just thank P. S. for existing.