Ovunque sei (2004)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Michele Placido

Writers:

Umberto Contarello (story)
Francesco Piccolo (story)

Release Date:

22 October 2004 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Stefano Accorsi	...	Matteo
Barbora Bobulova	...	Emma
Violante Placido	...	Elena
Stefano Dionisi	...	Leonardo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Emiliano Coltorti		(as Jesus Emiliano Coltorti)
Massimo De Francovich	...	Carlo
Giulia De Leonardi	...	Ada
Giuseppe De Marco	...	Tommaso
Valentina Lodovini
Donato Placido	...	Vincenzo
Giuditta Saltarini	...	Rita
Giorgio Sgobbi	...	Notaio

Also Known As:

La vita nuova (Italy) (working title)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Italy

Company:

Cattleya

The mourning's nemesis

I really don't understand the harsh reasons to bash day by day this Placido's film. The way it's narrated it's articulated and elegant, far light years from the amateurishness of which is often charged the Italian cinema after the death of the "masters" Fellini, De Sica. Michele Placido, who directed the recent acclaimed "Romanzo Criminale", in "Ovunque Sei" re-writes the City of Angels script with a brave key of supernatural meanings. Thought it seems a little bit hard to follow in the early scenes (the way it's been edited requests an effort from the audience) but it's impossible not to be dragged by the emotions and the effusions spread between the two lovers, the mourning drama lived inside (it's a movie not the reality!!) and the concept of an angel standing-by.

Rather, it needs so much participation, share, by the public that people who doesn't know the real sorrow because, lucky them, they never had to manage it, didn't involved at all inside this movie.

All the four actors Accorsi-Bobulova-Placido-Dionisi are skilled and they prove to represent at its best the new Italian recitative class.