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07/22/08
The Way We Laughed (2001)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 18 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis: A working class illiterate, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), takes in his younger brother Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida). Sicilians displaced in late 1950s Turin, Italy, they struggle to get by with Giovanni working odd jobs while he pressures Pietro to keep with his studies. An economic shift in... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Francesco Giuffrida, Fabrizio Gifuni, Rosaria Danze, Claudio Contartarse
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05/19/04
It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
12/08/02
To watch Gianni Amelio's luminous The Way We Laughed is to reconnect with Italian cinema in all its richness of emotion and command of expressive gesture.
08/15/02
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07/22/02
A haunting, richly textured film that, like the Italian director's unforgettable Lamerica, dramatizes the plight of poverty on an epic scale.
06/14/02
An unusual, tremendously moving film that nicely assumes we can read between the pictures.
05/24/02
Amelio ... understands the loneliness, suspicion and uncertainty that plague immigrants in a land where they can't get familiar work or speak a familiar tongue.
05/10/02
This is the kind of European film you rarely see anymore, with characters and circumstances that are easily debatable. Two viewers may never reach the same conclusion about the film.
02/08/02
The absorbing tale, in the rich dialect of Southern Italy (and not in standard Italian), is ... well-written and acted.
12/09/01
The making of this picture is so sure that hope for Amelio, for his future, is almost forced on us.
12/05/01
More frustrating than gripping thanks to the fractured, often confusing narrative and the director's pro-pensity for extremely long takes.
11/30/01
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It's hard to argue with the stunning lead performances by Enrico Lo Verso and Francesco Giuffrida.
11/26/01
All perspective on the characters and situations are dissolved, leaving the audience with little more than some lovely photography to enjoy.
11/22/01
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