Don't Move
2004
A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto) Read more
| Starring | Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini |
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| Director | Sergio Castellitto |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Don't Move
A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto)
| Starring | Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini |
|---|---|
| Director | Sergio Castellitto |
| Studio | WARNER VISION INTERNATIONAL |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Sep 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes for the best debut feature, this is a bleak study of the way Japanese PoWs were treated by their Soviet captors in the Stalinist era of the mid-forties. Faithfully re-creating the ghastly conditions in which everyone both lived and worked in a remote mining town, director Vitaly Kanevsky is keen to point out that the Russian miners were as much in captivity as the prisoners, and they wouldn't be able to go home once hostilities ended. The presence of two children, playing happily amid the degradation, only reinforces Kanevsky's depressing but well-made point. Sobering and provocative.
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When his daughter is left in a coma after a road accident and doctors battle to save her, surgeon Castellitto... read more on Time Out
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20 out of 28 people found this review helpful
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Sad little film
Extremely well acted - Penelope Cruz is marvellous - but ultimately unsatisfying, low budget film. The acting deserved a better plot. The film was overlong, the characters unsympathetic and by 2/3 of the way through I was willing it to end. I don't normally have a problem with subtitles, but maybe it was a better film if you understood it in Italian. Overall, it probably has some merit, but was rather hard work to watch. And if that was a normal child by Italian standards, then I feel sorry for Italian parents.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Emotional & thought provoking
A really interesting and intense film, beautifully acted by Penelope Cruz and Sergio Castellito, who also directs. There's lots of strong emotion - this is an Italian film! - as the surgeon /central character looks back at his life and relationships with wife and lover and reassesses his past. The crisis that triggers his memories is a life threatening accident to his daughter who is being operated on in the next room as the surgeon's mind wanders into the past. There are some controversial scenes and there's plenty to talk about, making it a good evening's entertainment. And then there's Penelope Cruz in an
extraordinary role. Not content with Spanish & American films she's now playing it close to the edge in Italian. Wow. -
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Cruz re-teams with director who gave her breakthrough role
- 17 Mar 2009
Oscar winner Penelope Cruz has signed up to a new movie re-teaming her with the director who made her a star. Five years after Cruz's breakthrough role in Sergio Castellitto's Don't Move, the actress will this year (09) begin work on his latest project, Venuto al Mondo (Into the World). The Spanish beauty - who lifted the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award last month (Feb09) for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona - will play a single mother in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The movie... Read more
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