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how popular in Italy?

posted 15 years ago by John_is_john
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hi,

I saw this movie last year in Montreal, Canada and I thought it was great. (personal opinion). The thing is, I went to see this movie quite randomly, I have never heard about it before. Then, I realized it won several di donatello awards, which I heard are the equivalent of the Oscars in Italy.
I know a few Italian people living in Northern Italy, but I found it strange that no one of them have ever heard about this movie. Even if they are not cinema critics, I thought a movie like this one (which won major awards) would be quite well known in their own country. This is why I am wondering if this movie is popular in Italy, or if it scored well at the Italian box office?
Or was it an independant movie which didn't get a big theater release?

I am also trying to understand why it is quite hard to find it on DVD as a international version (english subtitles, zone 1 would be nice too). If anyone knows where I could buy it on a safe site, let me know! thanks

[–] petra-59 15 years ago

It is certainly on DVD. "Beyond Home Entertainment" is on the label of the one I borrowed (in Australia).

[–] mosli 15 years ago

but I found it strange that no one of them have ever heard about this movie

For first that isn't a politically correct movie; furthermore, a large piece of Italy (no exceptions for Movie industry and distribution) is ruled by his royal majesty (not heightness, of course) Silvio Berlusconi. All Berlusconi's campaign is based upon and against foreigners, inducing strong racisms in underdeveloped italian brains (40 %, at least).

[–] lulazz 15 years ago

Thank you for such a well thought out, illuminating and completely objective insight into the Italian film scene and society.
The reality is that the film was very well received among film letterati and critics (presented at the Rome Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award in the foreign film category) but let's face it is not exactly mainstream cinema, regardless of the development of the viewer's brains.
Contrived and improbable, gratuitous in its graphic scenes of violence, slow, it was an intesting and unusual film, but not destined to be a blockbuster by today's standards of the average cinemagoer, regardless of political affiliation.
This has Fanny Adams to do with racism, political correctness or anything else Mueslibrains says.
The film was filmed in my home town....

[–] chichizola 12 years ago

Funnily enough, the movie was actually produced by Medusa, the cinema/TV/media company owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

So this theory doesn't hold very much... :-)

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