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Genova Reviews

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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- 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
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:21
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  - 6
  Ge-no-no
  
  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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  - Liff
  - 29 Apr 2009 at 11:25
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- - 0
  - 0
  Very Dull
  
  This was possibly the most boring film I have ever seen. I kept watching thinking that something would happen to make the film interesting but it just went on ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 18 Apr 2012 at 23:19
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  The film that goes nowhere...
  
  Keeps your interest throughout but then nothing happens!! The film goes nowhere!! No real story, Keep thinking something's going to happen but..... it doesn... read more »
  
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- 1096745
- - a customer
  - 26 Feb 2012 at 15:39
- - 1
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  OK Drama
  
  Ok family drama dealing with grief and coming-of-age. It's very well acted but all a tad slow and the ending is very disappointing. The slight ghost theme ... read more »
  
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- - GaryI
  - 657 reviews
  - March, Cambs
  - 23 Feb 2012 at 21:19
- - 1
  - 0
  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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- - pembie
  - 3 reviews
  - Redditch
  - 25 Nov 2011 at 15:26
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  - 1
  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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- - Beelzebomb
  - 27 reviews
  - Chelmsford
  - 18 Nov 2011 at 00:53
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  - 1
  You don't always need action to make a good film
  
  THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS | Show review anywayHide
  
  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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- 1063846
- - Loulie
  - 62 reviews
  - Scotland
  - 17 Nov 2011 at 16:54
- - 0
  - 3
  Not impressed
  
  Totall waste of Colon Firth's acting talents although he carried the role and carried it well. The story went absolutely nowhere; I certainly cannot rate ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 15 Nov 2011 at 08:58
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  - 2
  boring no point
  
  Very boring, no point to it, watched it all as i thought there might be some meaning to the film but no.
  
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- 1046937
- - sarahlou31
  - 7 reviews
  - Wrexham
  - 02 Oct 2011 at 15:50
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  - 1
  90 minutes could be better spent
  
  This film promised so much but was so dull and slow. watched on til the end thinking something would happen to give point to the film.
  
  not the w.orse... read more »
  
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  - 24 Sep 2011 at 08:59
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  A film of quiet quality
  
  A beautiful film, observing its actors' fine performances of a set of vicissitudes of life.
  
  A deeply moving film that prompts questions to an ... read more »
  
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- - Medomai
  - 1 review
  - 08 Sep 2011 at 22:09
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- - 39
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  Ge-no-no
  
  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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- [Highly rated reviewer]
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  - Liff
  - 29 Apr 2009 at 11:25
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  Lovely Italy
  
  A film about a family, academic father Joe (Firth), adolescent elder daughter Kelly and younger daughter Mary all moving to the Italian city of Genova for a ... read more »
  
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  - hardpressedmother
  - 109 reviews
  - East Sussex
  - 15 Jul 2009 at 07:36
- - 8
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  Truely Awful
  
  What a huge dissapointment this film was. I love Colin Firth, but I spent most of the film wanting to slap him to wake him up. The scenes jumped all over the... read more »
  
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  - Wotton-Under-Edge
  - 11 May 2009 at 09:05
- - 6
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  What a load of Rubbish
  
  As far as films goes this is junk, why people would waste there money making this is beyond me.
  
  This is by far the worst film I have ever seen
  
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- - Pickles1463
  - 1 review
  - Penzance
  - 04 Aug 2009 at 19:48
- - 5
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  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  
  I watched it whilst loading the dishwasher it was that bad. Just had it on in the background. Cant believe it was such a poor ending. Like others have said, ... read more »
  
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  - Lutterworth
  - 26 Jul 2009 at 01:25
- - 5
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  Atmospheric
  
  I wasn't quite sure what to expect given the difficult subject matter of this film, however I really enjoyed it. The atmospheric Genoa location made the ... read more »
  
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  - Billericay
  - 02 Aug 2009 at 17:07
- - 5
  - 0
  Must be good with Colin Firth!
  
  Well I thought I couldnt go wrong if the film had Colin Firth, how wrong could I be.... this is the worst film I have ever seen. When the titles came up at the... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Nottingham UK
  - 15 Aug 2009 at 13:34
- - 4
  - 0
  genova
  
  film seemed like a travelogue for Genoa,however, nicely filmed with atmospheric 'fly on the wall' dialogue,but it failed to live up to its billing.read more »
  
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  - Warrington
  - 17 Jul 2009 at 21:23
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  - 0
  Genova
  
  I found this film extremely boring. You are constantly waiting for something exciting to happen and it never does. Don't think i've seen a film with ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Worcester
  - 20 Jul 2009 at 12:23
- - 4
  - 0
  genova
  
  i persevered and watched till the end but what a boring film. Colin Firth with American daughters who go to live in Italy for a year and just seem to always get... read more »
  
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- - littlesar
  - 22 reviews
  - Beckenham
  - 01 Aug 2009 at 20:38

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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....