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Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) DVD

R (Restricted) :: Weinstein Company :: Released: 2006-11-07

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Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) Summary A Famous Film Director Returns Home To A Sicilian Village For The First Time After Almost 30 Years. He Reminisces About His Childhood At The Cinema Paradiso Here Alfredo, The Projectionist, First Brought About His Love Of Films. He Is Also Reminded Of His Lost Teenage Love, Elena, Ho He Had To Leave Before He Left For Rome. Cinema Paradiso Is One Of The Most Beloved Foreign Films Of All Time! Winner Of The 1990 Oscar For Best Foreign Film!

Cinema Paradiso's complex, interwoven tales of wartime Italy, a boy's coming of age, and the history of cinema can be viewed in their entirety on the Director's Cut included in this Deluxe Edition. Director Giuseppe Tornatore's additional 50 minutes of footage provides closure for the saga's detailing Alfredo's death, and Salvatore Di Vita's lost relationship with his teenage love, Elena. Most of the 50 minutes serves as a continuation of the story, rather than as previously deleted scenes. The original, already celebrated Cinema Paradiso follows Toto (Jacques Perrin), a Sicilian boy who persuades the town projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), to teach him how to show films. Spanning nearly 50 years, the film craftily draws parallels between Toto's life and those lives he sees on screen. As Toto matures into Salvatore, a successful Italian filmmaker, the Cinema Paradiso ages as well. Salvatore's return home for Alfredo's funeral is also a goodbye to his Paradiso, demolished to become a parking lot. The film's heightened sense of nostalgia subtly mirrors our humanistic love of movies, making it a tribute to cinema as an artistic genre. The Director's Cut can be fulfilling if one felt unsatisfied by the more ambiguous ending of the theatrical release, but it also feels slightly overwrought. Two documentaries in this package feature fans and critics praising Cinema Paradiso, proving its endurance as a classic. However, as Salvatore discovers over the course of the film, there is no need to improve a masterpiece. --Trinie Dalton

Cinema Paradiso [2 Discs] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Philippe Noiret, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli, Leo Gullotta
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 155 mins
UPC: 796019797016
Binding: DVD
Studio: Weinstein Company
Release Date: 2006-11-07
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Portuguese (Original Language),