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Genova Details

2008

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A man (Colin Firth) moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality. Read more

Starring	Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Monica Bennati
Director	Michael Winterbottom
Genres	Drama

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Genova

Starring	Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Monica Bennati, Dante Ciari, Gherardo Crucitti, Alessandro Giuggioli, Demetri Goritsas, Perla Haney-Jardine
Director	Michael Winterbottom
Studio	METRODOME
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 34 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate	DVD LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: Italian, English LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released	Production year: 2008 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 04 Aug 2009 To Rent: DVD: 13 Jul 2009
Watch now	£2.49

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- Grief and tears, sun and sex: Michael Winterbottom rides his globe-trotting indie charabanc into the Italian city of... read more on Time Out
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- - Dave Calhoun
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:21
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  If you would enjoy the kind of evening where friends invite you over to view 2,000 of their holiday snaps painfully and slowly without ever completing any of ... read more »
  
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  Boring Dribble
  
  I would criticise the story, only there wasn't one. I sat imagining more exciting scenarios in my mind but none of them happened, incredibly dull; I wasted ... read more »
  
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  - 25 Nov 2011 at 15:26
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  A thoughtful, gem of a film
  
  Colin Firth has quietly been carving out quality, understated gems for many years prior to his recent acclaim, and this is another.
  
  With a friendly ... read more »
  
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  You don't always need action to make a good film
  
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  Sometimes a 'beginning, middle and end' are overrated.Watching this film is a little bit like peering into a period of a family's life and then ... read more »
  
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  A man (Colin Firth) moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality....