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*Cinema Paradiso*, also titled *Nuovo Cinema Paradiso*, is a 1988 Italian and French drama film directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. The cast includes Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, and Philippe Noiret. Ennio Morricone composed the score, while Blasco Giurato served as director of photography and Mario Morra as film editor. Franco Cristaldi produced the film, which was filmed in Palermo, Sicily, and set in Sicily.
The film has a runtime of 155 minutes and was released on November 17, 1988. It received the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Additionally, it won the European Film Award for Best Actor. The film has a Metascore of 80 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 90%. It is rated PG and has a budget of 5,000,000 with a revenue of 35,962,062.
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8.4A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Cast
- Philippe Noiret as Alfredo
- Jacques Perrin as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (adult)
- Marco Leonardi as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (teen)
- Salvatore Cascio as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (child)
- Agnese Nano as Elena Mendola (teen) / Elena's daughter (in Director's cut)
- Antonella Attili as Maria Di Vita (young)
Themes
- parent child relationship
- sicily, italy
- movie business
- kiss
- coming of age
- flashback
- magic realism
- nostalgic
- haunted by the past
- censorship
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Ratings
IMDb
8.5/10
316,943 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 174 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 25 wins & 33 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
Cinema Paradiso (Italian: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Italian pronunciation: [ˈnwɔːvo ˈtʃiːnema paraˈdiːzo], lit. 'New Paradise Cinema') is a 1988 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
Set in a small Sicilian town, the film centres on the friendship between a young boy and an aging projectionist who works at the titular movie theatre. The Italian-French co-production stars Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio and Salvatore Cascio. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone and his son, Andrea, marking the beginning of a collaboration between Tornatore and Morricone that lasted until Morricone's death in 2020.
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