hard life if you are a Coppola. Or at least, it can be if you decide to engage in the field of cinema. Nicholas Kim Coppola had to change his name to Nicolas Cage to stop the accusations of favoritism in the great nephew of Francis Ford. Sofia instead, the daughter of famous director, has decided to continue its journey into the world of film after a not very successful acting career (remember all the Razzie for his performance in The Godfather: Part III will ) maintaining balance the family name, carving out a place in the vein of low-budget independent film.
debut in 1999 with The Virgin Suicides , that despite everything that I found most enjoyable. The real success came in 2003 with Lost in translation - translated love, with which he won the Oscar for best screenplay. Then he followed Marie Antoinette in 2006, not strange experiment that combines the highly successful pop the movie in costume. And then came Somewhere in 2010, awarded the Gold at the Lone Venice festival by Quentin Tarantino ...
I must be careful in summarizing the plot, because unwittingly I might reveal something unexpected ... ruin a surprise ... anticipate a poetry ... Hmmmm ... well, let's be clear, I could describe everything to the last scene, without spoiling anything. Because there is very little to ruin, has already thought of everything Sofia. What a girl sighted!
The story should be that of a certain John Mark, a movie star who lives nell'ovattato the show, which marks his days between alcohol and women until they must deal with the eleven year old daughter Cleo, who will open the eyes to the true way of living. Fine.
is my impression or is it something that tastes familiar? Come on, let's not scassamarroni, it does not matter what stories, but as the stories! The basic problem is that a bad person is a director turn even more horrid. Almost 100 minutes (thank goodness, my brain would not have been able to withstand more) of static shots, mostly without any speech. And when these talks were to regret the silent cinema. Really.
I do not know ... has been the initial recovery of a machine that runs in circles for two minutes, the never-ending lap-dance for two dancers kinky as the grandmother of your country cousin, the follow with the camera from behind a car beyond the limit allowed by the mind human being to make an idiot in the face with plaster for three minutes abundant first-fruits and other similar ... but really, this movie bored me a lot. Somewhere yes, that is away from this stuff!
So this is the result. A banal story, badly written (I'm curious to know how long the screenplay), directed and performed even worse in a deep coma. Stephen Dorff at certain points it seemed Scazzi beyond all limits, I was almost worth it.
A further bury the end result is the scene where Johnny goes to Milan to pick up the Telegatto (yes, you read correctly, the Telegatto scene ... I have not yet figured out the utility. As the initial where Johnny breaks his arm, not at all necessary for the story), during which they make a nice appearances Simona Ventura, Valeria Marini, Giorgia Surina, Maurizio Nichetti and Nino Frassica Role of themselves. The blow comes just minutes later, when Cleo is an indirect mention of the novel Twilight . And this movie should be a masterpiece? But please!
The only thing I seem to have realized is that to tell a meaningless life, you have to direct a film even more insignificant.
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