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Movie Reviews of Don't Move
Movie Review: Passion love
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't Move is in the same category as Lina Wertmuller's Swept Away, which is to say that it is about passion love which is anti-rational and which breaks through all the barriers and conventions of middle class respectability.
Penelope Cruz is not beautiful in this film, at least in any conventional way. However, she magnificently portrays the passion that inspires Sergio Castellitto to leave everything for her. This lower class Italian woman who, in an operatic way, is named Italia, says to Castellitto that she will kill him if he lies to her. The line perfectly expresses the passion love that is ignited from the beginning, and exemplifies the operatic undercurrent of the film.
The rape that occurs at the beginning, is of mythic proportions and is certain to draw the ire of American feminists. But it is the first of a series of commands: Don't Move (from my life) which express the underlying theme of the film, that the people whom Castellitto has loved the most have moved away from him.
A flashback depicts an argument between the small boy Castellitto's mother and father and ends with the father abandoning the family for good. The movie opens in the present when his fifteen year old daughter, by his wife, has sustained a severe head injury and might not live. And then comes the flashback which is the story of the film: Castellitto's love of Cruz. He is swept away by Italia.
For an instant Castellitto thinks Cruz is a prostitute and that he has done nothing more than take something that he should have paid for. But he learns that she cleans hotel rooms for a living, which is enough to allow the birth of love. The birth of love in Cruz takes much longer, of course, but when Castellitto tells her he loves her she allows herself to believe that he might be telling the truth. There are several scenes of fierce erotic ecstasy that recall the rape, but they are portrayed as natural and completely mutual.
Castellitto's wife, who is played by the conventional nordic beauty Claudia Gerini, represents what is successful but decadent about Italy. The couple live back-to-back lives and Gerini is portrayed as having a parallel successful career. One scene shows her attending a drunken party without Castellitto. Castellitto chides her about a certain mutual friend who might be a boyfriend. In another scene, she tells him she doesn't want to have children and says, "I wouldn't even know how to hold a baby," as if his desire to have children with her is ridiculous. Their relationship is shown to be a marriage of convenience between a beautiful woman of modest middle class origins and a successful surgeon: When she gets pregnant by accident, she expresses the hope that she wont have a girl because she might inherit his "ugly nose." And the scenes which depict her family show superficial, deeply boring group of people who care more for their animals than each other and who live in a shabby middle class apartment.
It will be difficult for many Americans to believe that a successful surgeon would think of leaving a beautiful, sophisticated Northern Italian woman for a skinny, badly dressed woman whom he has raped. It will be even harder for us materialists to forgive him. But any American who loves Italian opera will believe it, and will place this film in the same category as Swept Away, Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino, to name just a few Italian film masterpieces of the past.
Movie Review: An Epic Tale of Obsession and Possession and the Conflicts of Passion
Summary: 5 Stars
'Non ti muovere' ('Don't Move') requires a lot from its audience - concentration, understanding about the extremes of control versus passion, and a willingness to stay with the nonlinear method of storytelling that novelist Margaret Mazzantini and screenwriter/director/star Sergio Castellitto have elected to use. This may be a little film about a few people, but the exposition of the story feels epic in its proportions (over two hours in length) and in the flamboyance of its production. In the end the demands of the film, in this viewer's mind, reward the viewer handsomely.
The time is the present, a rainy day when a fifteen year old girl experiences a motorbike accident. The victim is immediately transported to the hospital where her head is shaved and she enters neurosurgery in what seems like a futile attempt to save her life. Coincidentally one of the prominent surgeons at the hospital is Timoteo (Sergio Castellitto) and he is informed by a staff nurse Ada (Angela Finocchiaro) that the victim is Timoteo's daughter. Devastated by watching his young child undergo surgery his mind flashes back to the time of her birth, a time when, married to a beautiful but cold woman Elsa (the beautiful and talented Claudia Gerini), he has an affair with a common woman Italia (an extraordinary performance by the gifted Penélope Cruz). Timoteo's usual controlled model surgeon and husband had thrown reason to the wind as he became obsessed with the raw passion of a sexually dominated relationship with the tacky appearing but genuine and emotionally abused Italia. Their relationship may have started with a rape but it develops despite the misgivings of both Timoteo and Italia into a profoundly felt love. Italia becomes pregnant, knowing that Timoteo is married: she is willing to take any part of him she can have as her only other memory of a relationship was an abusive one when her own father raped her as a young girl. Timoteo is conflicted: his wife Elsa becomes pregnant yet he wishes to run away with Italia. The wise but vulnerable Italia aborts her pregnancy and opens the door for the manner in which she works out her history with Timoteo. All of this story Timoteo confesses to his daughter Angela, lying comatose after her surgery. And all of the elements of the story coalesce.
The performances by both Cruz and Castellitto won many awards and well deserved they are. Cruz proves that she is one of the most gifted actresses before the cameras today and it seems a shame that her Italian and Spanish movies acknowledge her gifts while her American movies place her in rather silly roles where her natural beauty seems to be more important.
While this film is not without flaws, the power of becoming involved with the characters is sweepingly forceful. This may not be an easy movie to watch but committing to it intellectually is most rewarding. Grady Harp, October 06
Movie Review: A Beautiful Film
Summary: 5 Stars
"Don't Move" is an Italian film starring Penelope Cruz ('Vanilla Sky') who is doing what other actresses (Juliette Binoche in 'Cache') have done. After scoring big as an American actress in American films, she returns to her Italian-roots to be in an Italian film. "Don't Move" is an interesting film, it's told out of chronological order. The movie is centered around a disaster, while the main characer flashes back. The main character, by the way, is Timoteo (played by the director Sergio Castellitto). The movie opens with a beautiful shot of rain falling, when we see a young girl being raced into a hospital after apparently having an accident. A few moments later, a nurse walks up to Timoteo (who's a doctor) and tells him that it's his daughter Angela. Flashing backwards, we see Timoteo breaking down in a small italian town and meeting Italia (Cruz). After going back to her house with her, Timoteo rapes her...It's not a vicious rape scene, it's actually pretty tame. It doesn't even really look like rape. Rest assured, this is far from Monica Bellucci in "Irreversible." Well, Timoteo returns to his life and proposes to his girlfriend...But eventually returns to Italia to set things right; But then he continues having an affair with her. I think the ending is kind of predictable, you know which way the romance is heading throughout the entire thing but I don't think the writers gave a damn whether you knew that or not. This movie has some beautiful scenes and beautiful dialogue, which probably wouldn't work in an American film. Director Castellitto is a gifted director that is also a wonderful actor, he really puts his heart into his performance. As for Cruz, she's great too. She gives an Oscar worthy performance but, oddly enough, she looks like crap. I don't know if they didn't let her wear makeup or just put too much on. I mean she really looks terrible in this movie. If you think Penelope Cruz is hot, don't see this movie because it might ruin your view of her. Also, if you're renting this movie merely for sex scenes (the cover strongly implies that there are some) this isn't your movie. There's several sex scenes, but there's little nudity in this film. The only nudity is shown during hospital scenes. But, if you're into foreign films that are wonderfully done and have incredible acting. Then check this movie out.
GRADE: A-
Movie Review: The things of life!
Summary: 5 Stars
The doubtful attitude toward life of a sucessful doctor who really wants to enjoy the best of both worlds. A love affair behind stages and the perfect moralist with a beautiful wife is the real point to discuss and to analyze in this brilliant film, supported by a solid script and a tremendous cast.
Penelope Cruz is magnificent as the second on board, she really was absolutely commited with her role as the lover who never asks until she decides to make a stop in the road.
The picture is brillianty depicted through a smart narrative elipsis, in which past and present; life and death are unavoidable joined.
Magnficent shots and an original proposal conform a worthy to see film.
Movie Review: This is what Penelope Cruz should concentrate on
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent! Magnificent! Not only is the movie full of great images, interesting dialogues and real-life intrigue; Penelope is outstanding. She is a wonderful actress and this movie shows what she is capable of. I love her ability to play any kind of Latina roles, her multilanguage skills, and her astonishing presence. This is real Penelope; and this is great Italian cinema.