L'IMMENSITA
Penelope Cruz stars as a mother who, in the 1970's, moves with her family to Rome for a better life and finds life and complications.
Good soapy family drama that is based on director Emanuele Crialese life. It is story filled with life and change. The film's one problem is that the film has too much going on. Between the trans story line, the dysfunctional family, the shifting of life in Rome and so much more. It feels spread thin at times. It's not bad, just too short to cover everything it wants to cover.
TOTEM (2023)
The course of a day for Sol, a young girl whose family is getting ready for her father's birthday. It's going to be a huge party that Sol's father may or may not attend since he is struggling with a debilitating form of cancer.
Shot in academy ratio this is a film that puts you up close an personal, with many shot long take close ups. Its a film that borders on being a documentary.
While the film was extremely well done it didn't completely connect to me. While I wanted to see how this played out, I never stopped feeling the director moving here pieces.
Reservations aside it's worth a look.
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