Ciao, Professore!
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Movie Reviews of Ciao, Professore!
Movie Review: LAUGH AWAY your BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLUES ?
Summary: 4 Stars
Feel those heart jitters? That's a genuine reaction from a heart-squeezing, fast-moving comedy about Marco Sperelli a teacher from uppity Northern Italy who is assigned - mistakenly - to teach street-smart third graders in a town near Naples.
The language might singe my ears if i understood Italian - - even so, a few asterisks or bleeps wouldn't be out-of-place! *Ciao* is vulgar & leaning toward an X-rating but it has just the right mix of garlic, laughter and truly heart-felt *lessons*.
Reviewer mcHAIKU would be surprised if you didn't want to watch more than once this Professore bumbling along . . . confronted by some pretty amazing young actors. Don't let *Back-to-School Sales* get you down - - check out *CIAO, PROFESSORE!* for a busload of laughs.
Movie Review: Charming!
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed Ciao, Professore! very much. It was poignant, charming, and humorous. Coming from an Italian background, I have recommended it to family and friends, especially Italians!Movie Review: Great
Summary: 4 Stars
I am hoping that by watching Italian movies with English subtitles this may help me understand and speak the language. Good comedyMovie Review: As chilling as it is charming
Summary: 3 Stars
The charm of this film lies in the adaptation
of the essays written by 8 and 9-year old
schoolchildren in the Neapolitan suburb of
Arzano. That these were turned into dialog
so successfully is a triumph of screen-
writing-the originals are poignant, but not
so eloquent. Paolo Villagio is perfectly
cast as the professore from the North who
brings his Padanic sensibilities to the
Mezzogiorno. The clash of cultures comedy
is predictable but engaging.
The chilling aspect of the film is the
overwhelming pessimism that has pervaded
the outlook of children at such an early
age. It is most un-American and for us,
with our rosy views of childhood, disconcerting.
It's worth pointing out that if you're
trying to learn Italian by watching movies,
(not a bad approach at that) this may not
be right for you. The Neapolitan dialect
is difficult for many Italian speakers
and is different enough from what you would
need to know in other parts of Italy.
Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine and the forthcoming novel, bang-BANG from Kunati Press