Nuovo cinema Paradiso
1989 Italy Color 123 minutes (170 minutes director's cut)
Review
Progress always comes late
Salvatore (Jacques Perrin), an internationally lauded film director, receives the news that an old friend has died. Before departing for his home village, Salvatore looks back on his childhood in postwar Sicily. He starts thinking of places and people he hasn't seen for decades.
Most of his youth was spent in a small movie theater called Cinema Paradiso, where he could be spirited away from his tenuous, unhappy real life. Craving to unlock the cinema secrets, Salvatore pesters the surly projectionist, Alfredo (Phillipe Noiret), into teaching him the ways of the projector. But then Salvatore's future is forever changed when he meets the lovely Elena (Agnese Nano)
Cast
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
- Salvatore Cascio .... Salvatore (Child)
- Marco Leonardi .... Salvatore (Adolescent)
- Jacques Perrin .... Salvatore (Adult)
- Philippe Noiret .... Alfredo
- Agnese Nano .... Elena (Adolescent)
- Brigitte Fossey .... Elena (Adult)
- Antonella Attili .... Maria (Young)
- Pupella Maggio .... Maria (Old)
- Leopoldo Trieste .... Father Adelfio
- Enzo Cannavale .... Spaccafico
- Isa Danieli .... Anna
- Leo Gullotta .... Usher
- Tano Cimarosa .... Blacksmith
- Nicola Di Pinto .... Village Idiot
- Roberta Lena .... Lia
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