The Last Kiss
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Movie Reviews of The Last Kiss
Movie Review: Clueless . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Part melodrama and part screwball comedy, this high-spirited Italian film explores the angst and ambiguities of commitment in romantic relationships at the point where "happily ever after" becomes disillusionment and disappointment. A young and unwed father-to-be, balking at the prospect of marriage, finds himself drawn suddenly to a pretty university student more than ten years younger. A friend at the ad agency where he works complains bitterly about the demands of his own marriage and fatherhood. Another friend is torn between his anguish over a girlfriend who has left him, his impatience with his dying father, who is leaving him with a business he abhors, and the desire to flee as far from home as he can get.
A fourth friend, still immersed in the adolescent pursuit of endless variety among bed-mates, observes from the sidelines, completely clueless, while a fifth friend has just married and from the vantage point of the honeymoon can't understand what all the fuss is about. Meanwhile, a middle-aged woman, miserable in a marriage where romance has gone cold, looks for an old boyfriend, with whom she once had an affair.
We are flung from crisis to crisis in this fast-paced intertwining of story lines, where the dialogue is rapid-fire and it takes a speed-reader to consume all the subtitles. When the center no longer holds and like a collapsing carnival ride, characters are landing every which way but on their feet in the final scenes, the filmmakers give us a happily-ever-after ending that we can either buy or not. By this time, it doesn't matter, because they've made their point. In matters of love and lust, we are all pretty clueless.
Movie Review: Relationships, Italian Style
Summary: 5 Stars
THE LAST KISS (L'ULTIMO BACIO) is writer/director Gabriele Muccino's astute view of relationships in contemporary Italy, a country long regarded as having marriages of convenience while masquerading affairs of the heart outside of the marriage. Muccino manages to examine a group of young men who are either 1)married with child and longing for the passion of yesterday 2) incapable of maturing into the role of committed adult 3) enjoying a non-married relationship until the specter of pregnancy threatens the passing of youthful freedom and lust or 4) sleep-around guys who can't move beyond an evening's moment of lust. There are many stories and films about today's youth being unable to partner for long-term relationships, but Muccino has the wisdom to have parallel stories about the parents of some of these youths and how middle age (and the threat of becoming grandparents) resurrects the fears of initial commitment. Set beautifully in Italy and populated with an extraordinarily gifted ensemble of actors, this film is a roller coaster ride through the astringent downs and cascading highs of Love. Stefano Acorsi and Giovanna Mezzogiorno are the main couple whose lives we examine and it is their coming to grips with commitment when their fantasy love affair is altered by pregnancy. They both are superb and it is due to their credibility that the whole series of stories their situation initiates gathers our compassion. There is much to be learned from this sensitive film, and even more to be entertained. A sparkling survey of love, Italian Style!
Movie Review: Good movie...cute guys too!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was a great movie. It had a very deep message, that talked about relationships. How when we fall in love with somebody, it seems like you can't live without that person anymore. And that love is more than about looks, but it has a deeper meaning, that you want to spend the rest of your love with that person, even though he/she isn't perfect. And then of course there is temptation. I believe everyone gets tempted at times. And this movie shows it in a nice way how when we cheat on somebody, what kind of damage that can bring into a relationship, but yet we should forgive. But it seems like this temptation, liasions..affairs, it's like a circle, that never ends, unless we get a control of our emotions/hormones..whatever. It seems like that when a person has an affair or cheats on his/her lover, only afterwards do they realise the mistake they made. That they can't live without the other person, that they want him/her back in their life. Having affairs and cheating destroy relationships and it's very hard to forget something like that. The movie also portrays how we get bored with someone after a while, that when we've been married for 10/20 years, we want something new and exciting in our lives.
This is a very good movie that I recommend, where we can learn what to expect in relationships...good and bad.
Movie Review: It's hot.
Summary: 5 Stars
First, watching arguments in Italians is so much more entertaining than watching them in English: It is musical and poetic. Second, not knowing Italian has its advantages: I chose to watch the Italian version over the English version for the reason that I can ignore the actors and focus on the characters. Third, this is not a comedy, but neither was "I Heart Huckabees" or "Star Wars" (I'm just saying). Fourth, as a dude who's about to hit 30, this movie brings some stuff to light that was always there, but I didn't think about. Fifth, regarding the reviewer's opinion: "The viewer is left with no warm feelings about life's decisions[...]" As if anyone makes only warm and happy decisions in life. Also, this reviewer's opinion is not true: At it's most basic level, this film showed how some people's perceptions change over time, while others simply do not.Movie Review: Quite satisfying
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a bittersweet treat. The charming story is packed with energy and characters which are sympathetic in spite of their childish flights from responsibility. I may be a bit biased because the dynamic of the five friends reminds me of that between me and my four best friends.
I read Roger Ebert's review out of curiosity, and I believe he didn't recommend the movie because it doesn't seem to know whether it is funny or sad. Frankly, I rather enjoyed that aspect of the movie. Latent comedy adds texture to even the most dramatic scenes, and the amusing frustration of the characters is underlaid with honest emotions.