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Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

petra_ste While I am no American Beauty fan, I admit it is a smartly made movie with great performances and fine writing. It seems director Muccino loved it so much he decided to make his own version, Ricordati di Me. Of course there is a middle-class family whose members detest each other; of course they all undergo some kind of revelation and change their attitude towards life. Meek Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) meets old flame Alessia (Monica Bellucci); frustrated Giulia (Laura Morante), Carlo's wife, pursues her passion for theater and becomes romantically interested in her director (Gabriele Lavia); their daughter Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) sleeps her way to stardom and their son Silvio (Silvio Muccino) develops a crush for a girl. Acting is uneven. Silvio Muccino, the director's son, gives a dreadful performance, mumbling his way through. Laura Morante is odiously over-the-top; I wonder if the blame is on the director, since I have seen this kind of overacting elsewhere in his filmography and Morante is usually a competent actress. Bentivoglio is better, although if you want to see him shine watch the underrated Come Due Coccodrilli. Nicoletta Romanoff is passable, but her character is so obnoxious that every time she was on screen I wanted her to be run over by a truck. Monica Bellucci, who usually just relies on her good looks, is better than expected; veteran Gabriele Lavia is the best of the bunch as the gay director.Sadly, these characters are both unlikable and boring, a deadly combination. Now, it is possible to make good and even great movies about characters who are reprehensible or just not very sympathetic (Once Upon a Time in America, Sleuth, Ronin, The Hateful Eight...), but they need to be compelling. In Ricordati di Me the protagonists are a bunch of shallow, bored individuals, as derivative as the movie they inhabit.4/10

palmiro The only way this soap opera turned into a feature film could have redeemed itself would have been with a "Godfather"-like ending: all of the offending parties (and God knows this family was filled with nothing but 'tipi antipatici') would be liquidated at the very end, as just retribution for their total 'antipatia'. This movie has not a single character in it who is likable, which, I suppose, makes for an interesting cinematographic exercise: you'd like to get up and leave these horrible people to themselves and the screen, but you can't bring yourself to do it because you're hoping that the director will obliterate them for you at some point in the film.

TdSmth5 Just like the director's previous effort _The Last Kiss_ this movie is about life. And no one brings more realism to his representations of the human condition than Muccino. There's pain and suffering, there's pleasures and elation, loss and gain, sadness and happiness but mostly a search to find ourselves in the time we have been given. Unlike one-dimensional American movies, Muccino's films show how with pleasure comes pain and that in pain are the seeds of pleasure. The acting is perfect. Bellucci looks gorgeous and so does Laura Morante. There is so much going on in this film that invariably, some story lines will be less interesting to some than others. This and _The Last Kiss_ are great celebrations of life.

vanillafan Yesterday I saw this excellent movie, and it is still lingering in my brain and my soul.I merely liked, not loved, Gabriele Muccino's smash Italian hit L'Ultimo Bacio when I saw it, since its depiction of thirtysomething doubts and fears left a sort of slightly fake aftertaste in my mouth. Plus, it waned out of my mind in a couple of hours, even though I had enjoyed while I was in the theatre.Ricordati Di Me is a very, very different deal. It's a delicate, multi-faceted, true and touching punch in your stomach.Well written and well played - especially by the extremely skillful and absolutely charming Fabrizio Bentivoglio, who's one of Italy's most gifted thesps as well as the longtime boyfriend of Rain Man's Valeria Golino (here you see him pouring his heart out onscreen with painful, searing directness) - the movie brings you into the home of a dysfunctional Italian family not dissimilar from so many dysfunctional Italian families.Meet them: there is the melancholic, romantic, slightly frustrated husband Carlo (played by Bentivoglio), who's an obscure white-collar worker who once wanted to be a writer and keeps a sensitivity that leaves him totally exposed to raw emotions and to the eventual unfair blow of fate, all of this while keeping as well a still-unfinished novel in one of his drawers; then there is his VERY frustrated teacher wife (played by the ever-classy Laura Morante), who once wanted to be a stage actress. They've got two teenage kids, one of them a vain and egotistical 18-year-old daughter, keen on only one thing, i.e. becoming a TV starlet (played by stunning newcomer Nicoletta Romanoff), and the other one a vaguely leftish, pot-smoking daydreamer senior high schooler son (played by the director's brother).Nothing new or revolutionary here, be sure of that, but the whole tale elaborated by Gabriele Muccino about the emotional disintegration of this apparently average family is narrated with passion and participation, both by its writer-director and by the actors.The foursome meet enormous difficulties in communicating with each other - not only the parents with their children do, but also each of them with any other one, and egotism and indifference run rampant, especially in the veins of Valentina, the young daughter, who's a truly upsetting spectacle to watch, what with her relentless pursuing of a tinsel world, a world made of garish make-up, TV studios and squalid sex relationships with one or the other TV beefcake idol, since this girl, while still looking very innocent on the outside, would do anything to be cast in some cheesy TV show as one of the decorative babes who strut and grind in the background.So, when you see Carlo, the husband, falling again - after many years - for married and unsatisfied mother of two Alessia (the ever-stunning Monica Bellucci, here way more expressive and intense than usual), an old flame of his youth, you just cannot think, not even for a second, of him as a middle-aged philanderer, or of Alessia as your typical homewrecker. The rekindling of their love is something so pure, so tender, so NEEDED by both these characters, that you can't help rooting for them - and be heartbroken when things just become spinning in a totally unpredicted direction, which I don't want to spoil for you.I also truly appreciated the open ending, which leaves the audience enough room to imagine whatever they like for the future life of these characters, who've just been, anyway, through a journey able to break - once and for all - the walls of hypochrisy that previously surrounded them.Go and see this movie, you won't regret it.