Questo si che è amore (1978) User Reviews

Hideous boy-in-plastic-bubble-struggles-with-parent's-divorce 80s movie

[Dustweek · 4/10 · 2 December 2006]

Little Tommy is trapped in a plushly furnished bubble at a hospital. His parents - who have high-paying jobs in the children's TV industry - decide to hide their divorce from Tommy. Does Tommy find out? Daddy doesn't bother coming around to Tommy's hospital anymore, so Tommy submits a hideous song to Dad's puppet show. ("Six days to go, and them my daddy will come...."). Does Tommy's message make an impact on his daddy? Does Daddy communicate through his TV puppet to tell Tommy he loves him, in an uncomfortable finale at the hospital? Was parent-child communication really this bad in the Eighties? Cute Italian children, overdubbed with bizarre Cockney accents. The over-the-top roller disco soundtrack adds another layer of horribleness. Oh, and a big shaggy dog thrown in for added sentimentality. Not sure why this marked as a "horror" film, unless it refers to the overall quality. Maybe Tommy "goes Carrie" in the last 45 minutes, but I didn't stick around to find out. Note: the film carries the title "The Last Day of Christmas" when shown on Japanese cable TV. Apparently the cable company bought the rights solely on the appearance of the word "Christmas" in the title, without checking the contents for quality.

Underrated

[Crocketsonsmith · 14 December 2007]

Sorely underrated little film this, directed by the delicate brush strokes of Filippo Ottoni. Very few films make me openly weep. This one did. By the end my lip was trembling ever so violently, and my fluttering eyelashes prickled with tiny tears. Papa turned to me, quite abruptly, and said, "Travis, whatever is the matter?" "A fly," I whispered, my voice but a croak, "it flew into my orb." I couldn't be seen weeping in front of papa! The inestimable Christoper George gives another bravo performance. He rang me in the middle of the night after they'd wrapped, his voice quivering. "This is it," I remembered him exclaiming. "This is the one, Travis. This is the one."

1 of the saddest films ever.

[hotchicktandavis · 10/10 · 25 October 2013]

This is 1 of the saddest films i have ever seen, and trust me,i have seen a fare few. if any body has got a copy of this classic,PLEASE, could u email me......i have been trying for years to get hold of it. there's a bit of humor in the film, when Tommy's mate helps him escape the hospital.But the scene i remember the most and had the most impact on me, was when right at the end, Tommy gets to the family cabin and starts to rapidly fall ill, his parents are racing to get to him, and just as they pull up Tommy steps outside and starts walking towards them and collapses in his mothers arms, and just before he dies it starts snowing. I remember sobbing my heart out, its got to be in my all time top 5 weepy's would love to see it again.