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Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Gianni Amelio
Daniele Gaglianone
Lillo Iacolino
Alberto Taraglio
Directed by: Gianni Amelio
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 2001
DVD: January 6, 2004
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: Italy
Language(s): Italian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Francesco Giuffrida, Enrico Lo Verso, Rosaria Danzè, Fabrizio Gifuni, Claudio Contartese, and Domenico Ragusa
The story of two Sicilian brothers who emigrate to the northern Italian city of Turin is told over a six-year period (1958-1964), with each year represented by a dramatic vignette from one day in their lives. (Film Forum)
What The Critics Said
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The sweeping, confounding conclusion therefore unfolds with a beauty and an ease that seem truly organic. The Way We Laughed has that feeling of being a work of art.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
Writer-director Gianni Amelio masterfully chronicles the ways two people can betray each other, and especially themselves, in the name of love.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Damon Smith
A film of great ingenuity and imagination, full of suggestive power, and it deserves to be seen.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Shows the fate of Sicilians who moved to the Italian industrial city of Turin 40-plus years ago, and it suggests that the experience of relocation is universal.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) David Ehrenstein
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The film, beautifully shot in widescreen by Luca Bigazzi, is surprisingly accessible and always engaging, if ultimately tragic.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie is powerfully acted. Mr. Lo Verso's passionate, fiery-eyed Giovanni is an incandescent star turn by an actor with world class charisma.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Wears its art, as well as its heart, on its sleeve -- so much so that I feel guilty for not liking it more.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Saul Austerlitz
It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Exploring a specific generational moment in mid-century Italy's social weft, Amelio's family saga might be his grimmest film, if only for the tragic exploitation of fraternity.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
Problematically structured, overly protracted and lacking in narrative fluidity.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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