Back in 1990, when people didn't have cell phones, digital cameras, or e-mail accounts, Giuseppe Tornatore made the follow-up to the classic Cinema Paradiso. Nineteen years later, widower Frank (Robert DeNiro, in the role Marcello Mastroianni played in the orginal) still doesn't have those things, and views his adult children in the hazy glow of their childhood selves. For many years, he has related to them through his wife, who died eight months earlier. And so he sets out on journey that could easily be sentimental, but for most of the movie’s length remains more subtle. Only toward the end, with a present-day DeNiro having an adult conversation with the pre-teen versions of his children, do things start to get sappy. The movie runs on about ten minutes long after everything has been resolved, as if the American audience must be reassured that everything really is just fine.
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viewed 11/19/09 [PFS screening at Ritz East] and reviewed 11/19–12/04/09
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