IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations
Angelo Casadei
- Un visitatore all'ospedale
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJacques Perrin had already played a boy named Lorenzo in the previous movie by Valerio Zurlini, "Girl with a Suitcase"
- GoofsIn the later sequence in the hospital, there are hairs on the film in several scenes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Close-Up: Why do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024)
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This is a film so great that to attempt to describe it nearly forces one into poetry. The visual flow alone is like a walk through all the great art galleries of the Western world, and the camera pauses on many of those scenes to permit us to admire and study the surprising compositions and tonal pallets. The story is viewed oddly in the third person - I felt somewhat like an astronomer viewing the short-lived movement of a group of comets through the coldness of space and time - helplessly seeking meaning and comfort through love, but doomed to end meaningless and forgotten - following some brutish laws of physics whose study seems a shrewd exercise in futility.
The scope of action is exceedingly restricted - perhaps more microscopic than telescopic - in the end, it's all the same: universal and intimate, cold and loving, helpless, with an odd image of Joseph's multi-colored coat haunting the mind - yet another symbolic object long rotted into the dust as must all symbols.
This is the work of people who have a very mature, objective understanding of life and who, without romanticizing or distorting or euphemizing, have created something both true and extraordinarily beautiful.
The scope of action is exceedingly restricted - perhaps more microscopic than telescopic - in the end, it's all the same: universal and intimate, cold and loving, helpless, with an odd image of Joseph's multi-colored coat haunting the mind - yet another symbolic object long rotted into the dust as must all symbols.
This is the work of people who have a very mature, objective understanding of life and who, without romanticizing or distorting or euphemizing, have created something both true and extraordinarily beautiful.
Details
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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