Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Agnes Nano, Salvatore Cascio

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Summary: In this delightful Academy Award-winning film, a young boy (Marco Leonardi) in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist (Philippe Noiret) reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking, beginning his lifelong love affair with cinema.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 5, 2006 11:45 AM

This multi Award - Winning elegaic film from 1989 about childhood, the movies and Sicily conflates the sacred and the profane beautifully . Salvatore , a successful film director , returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo . He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore spent the happiest times of his childhood and developed his love of film . To the fatherless young boy Alfredo became a father figure who guided and loved him . His return also brings back poignant memories of his teenage love , Elena , whom he had to leave to pursue his dream .

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Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater--and the finale all the more powerful. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	Italian
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interviews, Scene Selection, Stills Gallery, Original Theatrical Trailer, Star And Director Filmographies
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1989
Release Date:	May 21, 2001
Runtime:	170 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	F C D 098
Keywords:	Subtitled, General, Cut, Wide, Screen, Paradiso, Drama, Cinema, Director's
Genre:	Drama