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  • 2022
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2022
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary While visiting New York City from her native London, writer Alina Reynolds (Vanessa Kirby) inexplicably loses her memory and suddenly becomes unmoored and adrift on the streets of Manhattan with no sense of time or place — or even her own name. As Alina’s consciousness swings between imagined conversations, fragments of her own short sto...

Directed By: Adam Leon

Written By: Adam Leon

  • 2022
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2022
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m

Italian Studies

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary While visiting New York City from her native London, writer Alina Reynolds (Vanessa Kirby) inexplicably loses her memory and suddenly becomes unmoored and adrift on the streets of Manhattan with no sense of time or place — or even her own name. As Alina’s consciousness swings between imagined conversations, fragments of her own short sto...

Directed By: Adam Leon

Written By: Adam Leon

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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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83
Jan 11, 2022
The wistful feelings it generates about a world allowed to keep moving coexist alongside an uneasy evocation of brain fog, an easy stand-in for either a zombified endemic state or a specific long-COVID symptom—take your pick. Whatever the original motivation, Leon appears to sense, after a couple of sweet slice-of-life capers, that you can’t keep walking and talking forever.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
82
Jan 12, 2022
It’s an odd sort of travelogue Leon and Kirby curate here, but Italian Studies’ drifting, artsy peculiarities make 70 minutes fly by with a palliative affection—for Alina, for New York and for all the intersecting stories contained within its bounds.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 13, 2022
Italian Studies is a unique curio of a film, a free sketch of time and place melting into a singular subjective experience that asks “does memory matter?”
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 18, 2021
This is a film about an artist who forgets herself, made by an artist trying to do the same, and with the help of an actress looking for an anchor of truth to hold onto right when the tides of stardom are threatening to pull her out to sea.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 18, 2021
Italian Studies disorients the viewer for an experience that has moments of singularity, though it can’t hide from its disjointed nature. But it’s different, and that has definitive value.
By Michael Frank FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 18, 2022
None of it adds up to much of a movie. Italian Studies is more an experimental collection of filmed conversations, filmed docu-drama style, interspersed with clips of a gorgeous blonde wandering New York. But because it stars Vanessa Kirby…
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 18, 2021
The film trades the agreeably limber storytelling and seeming spontaneity of Leon’s previous work for a narrative both aimless and inert.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Animal Kingdom, Tango Entertainment (III), Topic Studios
Release Date Jan 14, 2022
Duration 1 h 21 m
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Website http://www.magpictures.com/italianstudies/
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