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An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.

Cinema Paradiso (1988)

November 17, 19882h 4mIT
8.4

4.8K votes

Overview

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

$5.0M

Revenue

$36.0M

Production Companies

CristaldifilmLes Films ArianeRai 3TF1 Films ProductionForum Picture

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User Reviews

Andres Gomez

8.0

Nice comedy-drama about the youth at the small town of an Italian kid.

Shreyance Parakh

10.0

**Soulful** Why did it had to end... The movie was like a breath of fresh air.Every thing about it was so refreshing and soulful that you can never get bored of it.It's one of those movies that you can watch again and again and again...The music, the story, the acting, the direction, the editing, all of it makes this an absolutely beautiful gem of a movie. One of the best movies that i ever saw and will ever see not because it was any different from other movies or better written, directed or acted, but because it's MAGIC, it stays with you.The soul of the movie stays with you beyond the cr…

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tmdb86370050

9.0

When you think about cinematography, nowadays you usually think about digital cinematography. But during the early '50s, '60s, and onward, there was a use of this thing called film. Film was what they used in cameras before cameras actually saved them into memory slots digitally. Projectionists actually had to crank the film projectors early on, before the automatic film projectors started coming in, otherwise the film would catch on fire. This movie is about friendship between a projectionist in a film watcher/altar boy, and the film watcher/altar boy was young, maybe 4th grade age. This movi…

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