Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Mikey A Great Italian movie. I didn't like the ending though , but still a wonderful movie (why should all gay relationships be tarnished with guilt by writers). For some reason European films have a lower ranking than Hollywood films on IMDb even though they are sometimes of better quality. This is a great drama film. Whats great about this movie is the way it recreates moments and precisely conveys what the characters are feeling - the bike scene with David and Matteo is superbly done with background song "zingara" - interpreted by Iva Zanicchi, which is great. The actor who plays David's character is a real hotty by the way, watch out for an intimate scene with a song by Loretta Goggi - "Maledetta Primavera" in the background. The opera style music played in the beginning and end is a bit strong I felt - reminds me of 'Death in Venice'. The movie has a great realistic and natural style to it, everything including conversation flows smoothly and is completely engrossing. A good watch.

Michael Built on the theme of ill-fated love, this film merges modern cinema with opera and emerges with a hybrid which infuses the viewer with a morality tale under two hours duration. Emotional theatrics reveal the frayed and tattered mental state of these two couples as both attempt to keep the appearances of functional family ties and friendships. While some USA viewers may find the emotional intensity "over the top," I find it similar to the emotional intensity that was infused into American Western genre when it went Italian and added an operatic theme to the story-telling. While no bullets are flying in a "pulp fiction" sensational style, the emotional content and the poignant plot climax enliven a rather dull scenario of viewing yet another "Doing Time on Maple Drive" clone-film with subtitles.

nodoubtluv92 Put it this way, if I were rating this movie on attractive male actors, it'd be a ten. The scenery is beautiful, as well. Other than that, this movie wasn't bad. I (like someone else mentioned) had a problem with the lack of forethought put into Matteo's sudden desire for David. It was evident from pretty early on that David is gay, but I thought more could have been done to make Matteo's sexuality believable. Also, I had a problem with the tantrums thrown by Shary. They were soap opera-esque and really distracted me from buying into the reality of the movie.Also, someone mentioned that the uncle (Leonard) was there as a fifth wheel? I whole- heartedly disagree, and I think that you don't understand the movie if you don't appreciate the uncle's role. His story serves as the foreshadowing of things to come. He sees Matteo looking at his nephew, and indirectly warns Matteo not to get involved with David, telling him that there are "some roads you can't turn back on," in reference to the "mistake" he made two years ago with Isabelle. Leonard makes sure that Matteo knows that what he is about to do is wrong, and will have severe consequences (which it does) and, like Leonard, he will never be the same. I do agree, though, that this movie could have done without the third couple.

jm10701 I am somewhere between liking and disliking this movie, so I am giving it five stars. What I like is the lovely performance by Massimo Poggio as Matteo; if the rest if the movie had been on his level it would have gotten an easy eight stars. But it was as if he was working all alone in an otherwise uniformly mediocre undertaking.The story, the dialog, the pacing and all the other performances are more like a soap opera than any other movie I can think of, with overblown emotions, preposterous developments, a lot of yelling and crying, and almost continual minor crises of one kind or another - even convenient interruptions for commercial breaks (what another reviewer brilliantly described as fadeaways).I am a gay man, but I did not find Thyago Alves attractive at all, so the fact that Massimo Poggio made his obsession with the boy totally credible is part of his achievement. His is a stunning, subtle, restrained, and deeply moving performance. So I can recommend this movie highly for his work, but not for anything else.