Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Desertman84 Don't Move is an Italian film that stars Penélope Cruz, Claudia Gerini, Elena Perino and Sergio Castellitto.It was the second feature from actor/director Sergio Castellito and he co-wrote the script with his wife, actress/author Margaret Mazzantini from her best-selling novel. Castellito stars as Timoteo, a successful surgeon and permissive father whose teenage daughter, Angela, has just had a life-threatening motorbike accident. Sitting in the hospital, wondering if his daughter will survive, Timoteo thinks back to a fateful day 15 years earlier when his car broke down on a remote country road in the rain and a bedraggled young woman, Italia, invited him into her ramshackle home only to have him force himself upon her. Timoteo then returned home to his lovely wife, Elsa. But unable to get Italia out of his mind, Timoteo returned again and again to her sordid shack. They began to develop genuine feelings for each other. Elsa is reluctant to have children, despite Timoteo's wishes, so when he learns that Italia is pregnant, he has a critical decision to make about how he wants to live his life.The gritty performances from Cruz and Castellitto outweigh the film's flaws.It was a full-bodied love story with a wrenching impact that makes most of today's screen romances seem undernourished by comparison.Overall,it still a good view for people who love good romantic movies.

dromasca If you are to tell the story of this film you cannot escape the melodramatic lines, the lack of credibility and the cheap sentimental and predictable turns of the plot. A doctor's daughter suffers a motorcycle accident, and while she is in surgery he remembers the love story with a simple abused woman, that happened by the time the daughter was born. That was his true love and his true feelings, but destiny rather than he chose career and an easy life to true love. The story looks like a soap opera, smells like a soap opera, is acted like a soap opera, so it must be a soap opera, right? Well, not exactly. First because director Sergio Castellitto films in style, and the choice of his locations is good, especially when he shows the poor district where the house of his love interest lives. Then we have the acting, both Penelope Cruz and Sergio Castellitto himself act fine, and give life and emotion to a couple of characters who otherwise would have fallen in ridicule.Yet, this is not enough for a good film. The flaws of the script are really too big to be filled and despite the actors performance no real justification about the reasons of the relationship crosses the screen. We are left with a stylish soap opera, but yet a soap opera.

wrlang Created by an obviously talented group of film makers and actors, it is a chic flic from the male perspective. I had to remind myself that this film is not subject to American cultural norms. I started out disgusted with the main character Timoteo (Castellitto) and un-accepting of the reality of the relationships between the characters, mistress Italia (Cruz) and wife Elsa (Gerini). The amazing lack of dialog from the wife, who obviously knows about the mistress and says everything with her mannerisms and eyes rather than the traditional lame dialog filled with anger and tearful ultimatums. A similar performance from the mistress that leaves unspoken the hopefulness that cannot detour the obvious path the relationship is taking. The emotionless beginning builds constantly through the film until the crescendo ending. Very well done.

D A Emotionally intense movie handled unflinchingly by lead actor Castellitto. This immersive character study into an unfulfilled doctor's love affair is a tad too lengthy and perhaps the director indulges in his on screen action a little too much, but the dedication that the two ill-fated lovers give to portraying the rawness of their emotions and instincts will, despite once in a while misfiring, leave few viewers unfazed. Penelope Cruz is great as the counterpoint, and deserves much respect for assuming such a demanding, unglamorous role at this point in her well established career. Obviously it is the love of acting that propels her(no comparison to her English jobs), as this mildly received Italian film must have been several notches down from her draw, but when you see the psychologically harrowing sex scenes (not always for the sex, but for the right before and right after) you realize why someone would be interested in such intimate work. As the film slightly overextends itself to reach it's climax which sort of dumbs down it's poignant theme, the performances and overall taste left are nonetheless real and life affirming despite all of it's muddied ramifications.