I'm Not Scared
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Movie Reviews of I'm Not Scared
Movie Review: Deserves Oscar Nomination
Summary: 5 Stars
You may have to try very hard to find this film. When I checked Amazon to find local movie times, they tried to sell me the paperback book!Set in 1978, this is hot summer southern Italy, and kids attired their bodies naturally and interacted with natural interests. No Disneyfication here! I won't give away the story, except to say it is perfectly acted, beautifully filmed, and is full of the human qualities like love, honor and betrayal that will bring a lump in your throat. Maybe, like me, a tear may escape your eyelid. Although it is certainly not a gay boylove film, there is love between boys here, and salvation. So should there be, since the director is named Gabriele Salvatores. He has directed 12 films, the most well known of which is Mediterraneo, the 1991 Oscar winner for best foreign language film. This new film is better than Mediterraneo. The cast are all local southern Italian non-pro boys, and the star is named Giuseppe Christiano, age 10.Also notable is Mattia Di Pierro, also age 10 - is he wild child or angel? - no, just a pretty blond boy. You will love this film, I guarantee it! I can't wait for the DVD!
Movie Review: A Quiet, Chilling Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether you're drawn to suave action heroes tossing out wry quips while emptying machine-guns into charging hoards, or of nearly wordless, hours-long existential explorations of meaningfulness and nothingness, "I'm Not Scared" will likely find in you a delighted new fan.
For the subtitle-phobic: take a risk! "I'm Not Scared" is refreshingly original, quietly chilling, and continually surprising to the end. The cast, led by 10 year-old Guiseppe Cristiano, is uniformly solid, and the Oscar-caliber photography is nothing short of brilliant.
The smart, effective score never gets overly dramatic nor does it tip the audience as to how it's "supposed" to feel. Its quiet beauty merely serves to support and bind the elements of the story, while standing humbly in the background.
I discovered this film quite by accident, having read no reviews, and now consider it to be my "find" of the year. I recommend "I'm Not Scared" without reserve or hesitation to anyone who ever wondered what his or her parents really did to make their money.
Movie Review: beyond words
Summary: 5 Stars
I fell in love with this movie after the first time I saw it! it is simply impossible to explain the real value of this movie... it is a great story with many meaning that the previous reviews emphasized on.
I have to mention that the picture is simply grabbing! every detail perfectly put into place... the scenary magnificant...
I would watch it over and over again because I simply can't get enough of the beauty of this movie.
The wheat lawn seems to have a symbolic meaning as well. I think it represents childhood and innocence and in the end of the movie you can see how childhood ends or is acually "killed".
The acting could be indded improved in certain moments but it overall effect shifts the attention from that. i like the portrait of the Italian society of 1978 (which seems so realistic in that certain part of Italy)
Movie Review: A Fine, Unsettling Story About Growing Up
Summary: 5 Stars
A 12-year-old boy from a tiny, impoverished village in the south of Italy finds a deep hole next to an abandoned farmhouse. In the hole is another 12-year-old boy. Who is he? Why is he there? How the two boys begin to deal with each other is the heart of the story. As we and the first boy learn more, and learn who is involved, the movie developes real tension. The first boy has to make choices, and then so does the second boy.
The movie is beautifully photographed with summer days and fields of wheat. A kind of a coming-of-age film, but with unsettling undercurrents of probable violence. You're never sure until the last just how the conclusion of the film will turn out.
Movie Review: incredible!
Summary: 5 Stars
an incredible film. i had never heard of it till i watched it the other day on TCM cable channel. i simply continue to be surprised by foreign film making! for a person as myself who throughly tires of our overly hyped and highly advertised action films, movies with huge movie stars rather than good actors, etc. i being one who enjoys "out of the main stream" movies, human interests and foreign films and the like. this was a special treat!
in spite of a very rough subject matter, it is not a film to be liked or dis-liked. it is a movie to be entertained and amazed by the excellent music, photography and above all, the acting. the children were superb!