Don't Move
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Movie Reviews of Don't Move
Movie Review: Instant Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Ms Cruz has done some excellent work (e.g., Captain Corelli's Mandolin), but I think this is her best. A wonderful film!
Correction: She did not return to her "Italian roots" to make this film; she's Spanish, and had to learn Italian for the film. Also, in this film, she's supposed to look "awful"; it's part of the character.
Movie Review: Powerful, Charged of emotions
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie, charged of Erotism, Violence and love, breathtaking, wonderful acting and story, Penelope Cruz is superb in this role, I think this is one of her best performances,As expected , Italian movies are so real and full of sensations that goes from pain to pleasure,violence to love, death and life, wonderful!Movie Review: Revelation - yes. Revelation, no.
Summary: 4 Stars
We've not been fair to Penelope Cruz, nor have some filmmakers, for that matter. Along her career in her native Spain, she has shown a fair amount of promise, whether in comedy, as early on in Fernando Trueba's 'Belle Epoque' (1992) or in drama, (Alejandro Amenabar's 'Open Your Eyes,' 1998, to Pedro Almodóvar's 'Volver,' 2006). Said promise has been less nurtured in too many English-language dramas (in Ted Demme's 'Blow,' 2001, or in Cameron Crowe's 'Vanilla Sky,' 2002 - the 'Open Your Eyes' remake) and in comedy, likable and lovely, but forgettable (in Fina Torres' 'Woman on Top,' 2003) or less than exceptional (in Woody Allen's 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' 2008).
It stands to reason that a professional such as Ms. Cruz would have become interested in the transfigurative role of 'Italia' in director Castellitto's 'Don't Move.' Shades of Sophia Loren's in Vittorio de Sica's 'Two Women' (1961), or of Florinda Bolkan in De Sica's 'A Brief Vacation' (1973).
Ms. Cruz is remarkable here. Awards such as the Spanish 'Goya' for her performance were well earned. Reviewers took little, if any, notice of her in this movie (Leonard Maltin: "...an almost unrecognizable Cruz...delivers...an effective portrayal..."). Lovely to look at as she can be, often through 'Don't Move' I anticipated eagerly for her unglamorous character to return on-screen, many times in scenes where she is given few lines. Claudia Gerini (reminds one of Greta Scacchi) makes good with her own character, but Italia's life and circumstances make the movie, which some would otherwise dismiss as mysoginistic, which in turn might account for the Academy, having ignored Cruz's 'Italia,' made amends in 2009 by awarding her the Oscar for her part in Woody Allen's 'VCB'.
Movie Review: Burning Love
Summary: 4 Stars
Dr. Timoteo Rossi (Sergio Castellitto) has the perfect life: a beautiful wife Elsa (the glorious Claudia Gerini), a smart daughter and a medical practice that is the envy of all his friends.
There is only one problem, though he loves his daughter, he's not really in love with Elsa because he can't get Italia (Penelope Cruz) out of his mind, thoughts and even actions. Everything reminds him of Italia and his brief but fervent affair with her.
Castellitto, who also directs here, has fashioned his film with more than a nod towards Roberto Rossellini and the Italian Neo-Realism films of the 1950's: Cruz is even made up to look like a new millennium Sophia Loren. But that is about the only similarity between the two for Cruz has a tenderness and vulnerability as Italia that Loren never had and that Cruz has never, up to this point, exhibited on the screen.
Cruz's Italia is average looking and takes nothing for granted: she is content with having only as much as Timoteo is willing to give her, as she says to him: "I don't care if you come back once a week, once a month or once a year...just come back."
There is a heart-breaking scene close to the end of the film between Italia and Timo that is performed only in close-ups: the camera moving back and forth between the two, which is a textbook treatise on film acting: eyes, face, eyes... that says volumes without any dialogue.
Castellitto, so good as an actor in "Mostly Martha," has directed a film with a master's eye. His scene compositions are beautiful and his astute sensibilities, particularly in the scenes between Timo and Italia, mark him as a director in possession of uncommon grace and a transcendant inner fire that hopefully will stay light for many films to come.
Movie Review: Good film, but the unexplained brutality of Castellitto's Timoteo will take you aback
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie certainly keeps you riveted to the screen. It's two+ hours, but the time flies by. However, we were a bit taken aback by the brutality of Sergio Castellitto's Timoteo. Given that the movie dances back and forth between two periods 15 years apart - and occasionally back further still - we assumed at some point that we'd get some type of insight into Timoteo's roughness (or his misogyny, as others here called it). That never comes. Instead, the viewer is left somewhat mollified by Timoteo's gradual softening and, ultimately, true affection towards Penélope Cruz's Italia, the object of his reckless, physical ardor. Still, in the relationship's early stages Timoteo's writes "I raped a woman" in the beach sand for all to see, and blurts out the secrets of his aggression to a cleaning lady (apparently the least consequential person he can find). He's clearly unhinged or at least hanging by a thread.
Rough-hewn Italia is indelibly played by Ms. Cruz. When the film came out in 2004 she was at the tail-end of a period where she (or, more appropriately, her agents) was starring in a pile of so-so releases in the U.S. But she burst out with her awesome performance here (she steals the film going away). It sets the stage for Volver (where she deserved an Oscar and didn't get it) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (where she won the Oscar that should have gone to Rebecca Hall in the same film). Regardless, her performance here - in Italian, no less, - is a revelation. She's elevated herself into the upper echelon of actresses.