Melissa P
2005
Based on the sensational international best seller 'One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed' MELISSA P is about a steamy tale of raw emotions and frank sexuality. Lonely, neglected by her parents and feeling the loss of her grandmother fourteen-year-old Melissa turns to sex as an outlet of expression. Propelling herself .. Read more
| Starring | Maria Valverde, Geraldine Chaplin, Primo Reggiani |
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| Director | Luca Guadagnino |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema |
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Read the book instead!
Very disappointing. Performances all round are pretty poor, and the plot is Dawson's Creek/O.C standard, only with slightly more nudity. Give this a miss, ... more
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bloody hell
This is just grim. Girl just gets used and abused but local boy she fancies. Her obsession allows him to do with her as he wants. As she goes from vanilla to ... more
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Read the book instead!
Very disappointing. Performances all round are pretty poor, and the plot is Dawson's Creek/O.C standard, only with slightly more nudity. Give this a miss, ... more
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Ok but nothing to write home about
Quite decent acting but the story is a bit dodgey. I have lived in Italy for 10 years and to be honest with you, this depicted a lot of true blue italian ... more
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Lock up your daughters.
An exploration of one young adolescent girl's painful experiences of love, ... more
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Interesting and overall well made
Although in some places rethorical and predictable, Melissa is a well thought movie that looks at serious issues and problems a teenager faces when growing up... more
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[Highly rated reviewer]
Kiss my.......
Read the novel some time ago - 100 strokes before bedtime - and this is a fair stab at an adaptation. It was always gonna be difficult to perfectly encapsulate ... more
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- Whipster from Shropshire
- Posted 26 Mar 2007 15:14
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10 strokes of the brush before bed more like
This film doesn't do the book justice, This could have been very good but it was just like an Italian version of the OC, I was very disappointed .
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dont judge a book by its cover.......
so many people were disappointed by the movie as they had read the book before hand.As i to have read the book(one of my favourites) i had high expectations of... more
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not very good
italian film on teenager initiation to sexuality. I stopped before the end. it was really boring.
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