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La banda dei Babbi Natale

Mirano high Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo to win back the public eye and critical credibility incrinatasi film not just with the trial of the 2008 Christmas the cosmos on the dresser. Before the opening credits, in fact, the screen can be seen busy in its entirety by a glass ball that makes snow fall on a replica of the golden Dome of Milan, where the memory can not slip to the famous opening of Citizen Kane , with the ball and the cabin was besieged by a flurry of fluffy white flakes, symbolizing childhood stripped away to shots of stamped paper to Charles Foster Kane. And on and on feelings of lost youth, which comprises essentially this The gang of Santas , which builds on the arrest, on the eve of the trio of protagonists, caught in the act while wearing costumes Santa Claus, they give the scale of a building. Translated into the police station, you will make a lot of trouble to explain to an inspector - forced to remain in service, with shopping bags in office equipment, causes fever to 40 ° fellow on duty (with a certificate from the resort) - the misunderstanding that have fallen agents, tracing their lives up to that time: Aldo turbulent lives with a woman who alleges that the vice of gambling and his being a child never grew up, as well as long-time unemployed with little inclination to find a job that is not the 'ideal', John is a veterinarian performed more prestige than real, regular users of the bathroom of a motorway, where you change before leaving Italy for Switzerland, given by a girl of wealthy family, which counts the days remaining until the wedding, unaware that man has a wife in Milan, James, doctors say, can not forget his dead wife, making them hard to open ourselves to love one collega.

La regia di Paolo Genovese ben asseconda una struttura alla Quel pomeriggio di un giorno da cani e raccoglie il plauso anche per non disperdere, nel generale divertimento, diramazioni più riflessive veicolate da quella palla di vetro con il Duomo innevato.

Sempre affidabile Angela Finocchiaro, qui nel ruolo del sensibile funzionario di polizia che si fa carico delle confessioni a cuore aperto dei tre ‘malviventi’ seduti di fronte a lei ed esilaranti le apparizioni di una Mara Maionchi in versione ‘picchiatutto’ e di un Cochi Ponzoni dalla batteria del pacemaker affidata alle cure di un dottor Frankenstein in erba.

Regia: Paul Genovese. Cast: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Angela Finocchiaro. Genre: Comedy. Length: 100 min. Production: Italy 2010

Originally published in Il Giornale di Puglia on December 21, 2010

Pattycake Online As A Vampire

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The clever pen of Woody Allen returns to enrich the stationer consuming sheets on sheets in respect of a London for the fourth time in signing the contract that binds you to put on the perfect stage, after the brilliant results obtained with Match Point and Scoop , with something less Cassandra's Dream, to represent the new act comedy 75 year old man that the tireless director of New York continues to serve forty years now.

On a point of departure as a sentence in the repertoire of fortune-tellers: "You'll meet a tall, dark stranger" in order not to weigh the money spent, we follow the lives of crumpled Helena - seduced by the siren song of a visionary, in fact, after her husband Alfie, surprised one night to think about eternity and give in to panic immoderate, decided to recapture youth by sending the key to the destruction of the house finally arriving to marry Charmaine, un'attricetta that until some time before rounded off with the profession and that, in addition to a text setting blank would be too generous, not much is committed to ensuring that the past does not come back to be alive - and his daughter Sally, whose ménage with Roy is sorely tested by the inability of these to follow up a successful novel of onset as well as from too long to postpone the choice of unprotected sex. And certainly the stubbornness in not wanting to blow dust off with a degree in medicine does not help.

Two strong women, Helen and Sally, but a force that in a perfect world would be a horror: one that feeds it with a deck of cards which has become a dogma (the very first piercing and unforgettable Sally plan to realize that the mother is permanently lost), the other with the painful acceptance that only a divorce can (maybe) patch up the tears of a life spent to encourage her husband in spite of everything and to reserve a place for the aspirations of second-order personal laws degree in art history and a desire to open a gallery, that would have everything to gain by a nose like a few to discover new talent.

In the middle: the first only imagined betrayals and then consumed (Opposite charming Sally and Roy) and only longed (Sally against Greg, his employer at one of the finest art galleries listed on the city moving - perhaps the most beautiful scene from the movie - the joy of the woman to try a pair of expensive earrings Greg wants to give his wife and for which he needed a female opinion), a crime of the most cowardly.

Commented by a non-intrusive narrator, meet the man of your dreams is a film of great entertainment which does not recognize the satisfaction sorry: shaped by Allen, of course, the characters, even the boundary can not do not let all the sign and the story oscillates between net without cracking a first part and a second lighter shades more dramatic if not tragic, and funny lines out there, but frankly you can count on the fingers of one hand. What you feel sorry for, and in fact detract from the work in suo complesso, è la mancanza di un finale alle storie, umanamente appassionanti, di Alfie (che subirà la definitiva umiliazione nella decisione di far effettuare il test del DNA all’agognato figlio maschio), di Sally e soprattutto di Roy. Per loro nessuna illusione, solo scatole e scatole di medicine.

Regia: Woody Allen. Interpreti: Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch. Titolo originale: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Genere: Commedia romantica. Durata: 98 min. Produzione: USA, Spagna 2010

Originariamente pubblicato su Il Giornale di Puglia in data 11 dicembre 2010