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After Midnight

Original title: Dopo mezzanotte
  • 20042004
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 32m
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Giorgio Pasotti, Fabio Troiano, and Francesca Inaudi in After Midnight (2004)
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The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to ... Read allThe magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dre... Read allThe magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by... Read all
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    • Davide Ferrario
    • Davide Ferrario
  • Stars
    • Giorgio Pasotti
    • Francesca Inaudi
    • Fabio Troiano
    • Davide Ferrario
    • Davide Ferrario
  • Stars
    • Giorgio Pasotti
    • Francesca Inaudi
    • Fabio Troiano
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    • 56Metascore
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    Giorgio Pasotti
    Giorgio Pasotti
    • Martino
    Francesca Inaudi
    Francesca Inaudi
    • Amanda
    Fabio Troiano
    Fabio Troiano
    • The Angel of Falchera
    Francesca Picozza
    • Barbara
    Silvio Orlando
    Silvio Orlando
    • Narrator
    Pietro Eandi
    • Martino's Grandfather
    Andrea Romero
    • Fast Food Owner
    Giampiero Perone
    • Bruno the Night Watchman
    Francesco D'Alessio
    • Member of the Falchera's Gang
    Gianni Talia
    • Member of the Falchera's Gang
    Andrea Moretti
    • Member of the Falchera's Gang
    Gianna Cavalla
    • The Car Receiver
    Claudio Pagano
    • The Car Receiver's Bodyguard
    Maurizio Vaiana
    • Cousin Maurizio
    Ladis Zanini
    • The Ballsqueezer
    Ivan Negro
    • Ivan
    Lidia Streito Misdim
    • Indonesian Girl
    Alberto Barbera
    Alberto Barbera
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      • Davide Ferrario
      • Davide Ferrario
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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 97944 delivered on 19-4-2004.
    • Connections
      Features Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916)
    • Soundtracks
      Ricominciamo
      (1979)

      Performed by Adriano Pappalardo.

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    9/10
    A smashing ode to film and love; don't miss it!
    This is a wonderfully inventive romantic comedy set primarily within the Mole Antonelliana, a fabulous 19th Century building in Turin that since 2000 has housed the Italian National Museum of Cinema.

    The love story is a triangular dilemma in which a young woman loves two men and cannot force herself to choose one over the other. Amanda (Francesca Inaudi in her film debut) is a fast food clerk whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Her boyfriend Angelo (Fabio Troiano) is a car thief and control freak who seems more closely bound to his trio of henchmen than to Amanda. Though handsome and charming in his way, he never stays the night and forgets about their dates.

    Then one evening Amanda urgently needs a place to stay and accidentally bumps into Martino (Giorgio Pasotti), a solitary cinephile who works and lives in the Museum, located near the burger joint where she works. He takes her in, and things begin to change for everybody.

    Martino hardly talks at all. For him life on the silver screen is reality, so he sees little point in social ties or even leaving the Museum, except for trips to the fast food place when Amanda's on duty. He hates the food but buys it anyway as a pretext to be close to her. He is so unobtrusive that she had never before noticed him, but for Martino, she is the dear if distant object of his total affection. He actually creates a film about the history of Turin, embedded within which are shots of Amanda taken from a distance.

    Buster Keaton is Martino's role model for conducting a relationship with a woman. The Keaton formula for success in love necessitates a series of struggles, pratfalls and temporary defeats ending in shy, glancing kisses and handholding. When circumstances dictate that Amanda stay in hiding at the Museum for several days, Martino proceeds to approach her in the Keaton manner. This isn't exactly Amanda's cup of tea. Their cavorting over the ensuing days is one of the more endearingly humorous sequences in recent cinema.

    Once Amanda is reunited with Angelo, he senses immediately that something has changed. He cleans up his romantic act, but his reforms come too late to neutralize Amanda's affection for Martino. Inspired by watching Buster Keaton take on a gigantic man to win the favors of the woman he loves, Martino comes to challenge Angelo. Priding himself on being 'principled,' Angelo proposes that, rather than him and his gang beating Martino to a pulp, the two lovers should instead let Amanda choose between them and abide by her decision. But she will not choose, leading to some amusingly awkward dates for the trio.

    The story is narrated by a sage fellow (Silvio Orlando, never seen) who treats the viewer almost as a godlike partner, joining him in enjoying the follies of these three earthlings. Actually it's four: I've left out Amanda's roommate, Barbara (Francesca Picozza, also making her film debut here), a beautician with horrid hair and makeup who lusts after Angelo and believes that love is always a zero sum game.

    All four principal roles are well acted. Distinctions in personalities of the characters are made vividly clear. Miss Inaudi is captivating. She is poised - confident, relaxed and natural - in her movements and speech, and has ivory skin, warm almond eyes, and a sweet, simple little smile that charms. But for me there's nothing quite as sexy as a broken looking nose on a woman (I think of Kristin Scott Thomas, for example), and Inaudi's marvelous shnozz looks like she took a tough blow sometime long ago, though most likely this feature of her anatomy is genetic.

    In fact, the most striking member of the cast is the Museum itself. Built between 1863 and 1889 as a Synagogue, it is one of Europe's largest masonry buildings. The City of Turin has owned the place since before the turn of the last century, and it was entirely remodeled in the late 90s so that the Cinema Museum could be relocated from the Palazzo Chiablese to these more dramatic quarters.

    The place has been designed to function something like the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, though it's much larger and more grand. The dominant feature of the building is a giant cupola. Now a glass walled elevator takes visitors high up into the cupola, from where they can descend, strolling on an inclined walkway that spirals downward past numerous displays on movie themes. The main floor houses a richly upholstered theater for larger screen presentations.

    The love triangle is, of course, too unstable to last, and it doesn't. Things do sort themselves out in the end, in a manner that, in the final scene, poetically entwines the boundaries of reality and cinema in the most visually lovely manner. This film reflects an inspired level of imagination on the part of Davide Ferrario, who wrote as well as directed. Its self-styled connections to great cinema from the past are not for a moment pretentious. This is a respectful homage, and, besides that, it's one terrific movie. (In Italian) My rating: 8.5/10 (A-). (Seen on 04/28/05). If you'd like to read more of my reviews, send me a message for directions to my websites.
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      • April 23, 2004 (Italy)
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