Got it. Here is the perfect way to make a Nazi death camp seem really tragic: Have an eight-year-old Gentile—say the son of the Obersturmbannführer—steal his way into the camp, to help an eight-year-old Jewish boy, whom he has befriended through an unattended fence, search for the latter’s “missing” father, and have both boys be […]
Daily Archives: August 14, 2009
Long, drawn-out, talky, with much of the “talk” yelled or screamed, and, as the title suggests, dim both indoors and out, Giorni e nuvole follows a rich couple in Genoa as their marriage frays after businessman Michele loses his job and their financial status plummets. Silvio Soldini’s film seems awfully contrived to me, and I […]
Dennis Grunes 