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02/09/06
I'm Not Scared (2004)
91 %
Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 86 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus:
A well-acted and thrilling coming-of-age tale that captures a child awakening to the frightening world of adults.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and... [More]
Genre: Television
Starring: Giuseppe Cristiano, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Mattia Di Pierro
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Screenwriter: Francesa Marciano, Niccolo Ammaniti
Producer: Maurizio Totti, Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Screenwriter: Francesa Marciano, Niccolo Ammaniti
Producer: Maurizio Totti, Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Reviews
Top Critic
The beautiful photography will have you booking flights to Sicily, while the unsentimental rites-of-passage drama can't fail to touch your heart.
06/11/04
Top Critic
A terrific attempt to express a young boy’s moral awakening using intense colour schemes, wide-angle lenses and unforgiving close-ups
06/09/04
Top Critic
Proves once again how accomplished Italian cinema is at seeing the world through a child's eyes.
05/18/04
Top Critic
Delicado em seu retrato da infância, peca apenas pela conclusão frouxa, quando o próprio filme torna-se infantil.
05/18/05
Harmoniously blends elements of a coming-of-age story, a crime drama and a mystery together in something of astonishing power and scope.
02/16/05
This is a visually stunning film, an intelligently consummated marriage of genres resulting in a movie that is, if not unique, at least very special.
01/29/05
Few movies evoke the wonder and terror of childhood as this film does.
01/26/05
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12/19/04
...a fascinating, if frustrating, look at the relative lack of power and security and place a child has in our modern world.
10/28/04
Visually striking and exceptionally performed by old and young alike, I'm Not Scared plucks the nerves.
08/17/04
A lyrical throwback to such movies as René Clément's Forbidden Games (1952) and other works of the humanist European cinema of a half century ago.
08/01/04
The muddled motivations of the film's adults to one side, Scared scores -- and even soars -- when looking at the world through the eyes of its 10-year-old protagonist.
07/08/04
What is excellently captured in Salvatores's film ... is the look and feel of those long-forgotten freeform summer days of childhood.
07/03/04
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06/20/04
To watch Gabriele Salva-tores' I'm Not Scared is to be whisked into childhood.
06/18/04
[It] first catches your attention [with] the crime... but what you’ll remember long after is the terrible dilemma of a young boy being forced to face the real world.
06/11/04
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