Francesca Comencini tells the story of her special relationship with her father Luigi, master of Italian cinema, at the most difficult moment of her life. “First life, then cinema” are the words that Luigi speaks to Francesca on the set of Pinocchio, a sentence that is a little like the soul of the film and an omen of the dramatic moments to come that they will have to face together, as father and daughter, sealing a very strong relationship.

With modesty but great courage, Francesca talks about a pivotal moment in her life, between adolescence and adulthood. We are in 1969, the images of the Piazza Fontana massacre, the episode that inaugurated the long season of terrorism, are on TV; Francesca isn’t even 10 years old and her father, played by Fabrizio Gifuni, browses with her the book illustrated by Collodi with the adventures of the famous puppet. The story tells us that Comencini had been working on the idea for years and the filmmaker shows us a moment in the creative process of a great craftsman of cinema. We are then thrown onto the chaotic set, where Luigi seems like a lion tamer in a circus.

Later, high school student Francesca, a sympathiser of the radical left, is in full conflict with her father. Heroin is spreading in Rome and our protagonist also gives in to drugs, and is no longer able to hide it from a helpless father who had put his trust in his daughter. A boy that Francesca dates dies of an overdose and, desperate, she throws herself onto the coffin at the funeral. To save his daughter’s life, Luigi decides to ignore all his cinematic projects and to leave for Paris with her, where Francesca, carefully watched over by her father, will slowly and painfully take the path of detoxification. At Luigi’s first Parkinson’s symptoms, the roles are reversed, and it is she who takes care of her father.

	
Il tempo che ci vuole AKA The Time It Takes (2024).720p.BDRip.Italy_VN.mkv

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Claudia and Flavio were passionately in love for a long time. It all ended and things were not easy for her. After many years, their world is adrift. He feels the need to keep on going, down on the ground; she would rather never forget.

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A little-known French romantic drama from the early ’90s that seems to have achieved a little notoriety for a couple of explicit, seemingly unsimulated sex scenes. Here’s the review I wrote for the film on imdb (still the only one there!) when I was a teenager:

When I found this film on an old VHS at the university film library, I didn’t know what to expect. I had never heard of the director, never heard of any of the actors, indeed, never heard of the film.

It’s hard to find words to describe it. The only comparison I can think of is, perhaps, a song by The Cure – an emotionally touching, beautiful tale of love, that is filled with a sense of melancholy and moodiness, and yet never falls into melodrama or self-pity.

Some might find the sex a little explicit. But then again, this is a film about relationships, relationships that consist of little more than sex… it only seems natural that the intimacy should be given its fair share of screen time. Still, the sex never threatens to overwhelm the rest of the film – this is no ‘soft-porn’ dressed up as art, by any means.

Anybody who has ever felt isolated or lonely should get something out of this film. Delphine Zingg’s beauty is matched by the gentle, sometimes removed, camera-work; the dialogue, while at times dense and philosophical, nevertheless has its own beauty.

From what I’m aware, this film hasn’t even been released on DVD. Francesca Comencini doesn’t seem to have directed anything else of note, and Zingg has only acted in a handful of movies. I would strongly recommend getting your hands on this film, somehow… so you too can join me in wondering why Annabelle Partagee is still such an unknown masterpiece.

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Language:French
Subtitles:English hard

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