Everybody's Fine (1990) Stanno tutti bene
Everybody's Fine (1990)
DVDRip | MKV | 712x572 | x264 @ 2176 Kbps | 121 min | 2,12 Gb
Audio: Italiano AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Italiano Commentary | Subs: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 712x572 | x264 @ 2176 Kbps | 121 min | 2,12 Gb
Audio: Italiano AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Italiano Commentary | Subs: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Writers: Massimo De Rita, Tonino Guerra
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valéria Cavalli
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and the father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit to discover how they live. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan and Turin to search for each of his sons.
IMDB - 3 wins
Giuseppe Tornatore is best known for the excellent, Oscar-winning "Cinema Paradiso," but unlike that film, "Everybody's Fine" is rarely talked about. One of my all-time favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Big Deal on Madonna Street), plays Don Matteo, an aging Sicilian father of five who goes on a trip throughout Italy to try and visit all of his children. This is a trip of revelation for Matteo, who believes his children to be happy and wealthy. Gradually, the truth comes down.
Throughout the movie, Matteo is haunted by dreams of a beautiful Felliniesque day at a beach in which a caravan of horses are destroyed by an ominous descending black balloon that also steals his children. This isn't the only thing in the film that is inspired by Fellini, there are a LOT of things in here that echo the great Fellini's work (including a shot of a bus driving by our main character, it's passangers with their hands on the windows glaringly staring at him…GOOD STUFF).
It's a very warm, sentimental film, and I thought it was quite wonderful. Legendary composer Ennio Morricone's extraordinary score fits the film like a glove.
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Everybody's Fine (1990) Stanno tutti bene
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