Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) :
Brief Review -
A dumb and boring romance saved by Vittorio De Sica's unusual War Conflicts. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini bored me for a while, actually many times. I was literally saying the dialogues a moment before the character would say it on screen. It was that predictable. The film is based upon Giorgio Bassani's 1962 novel of the same name which tells the story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s. Giorgio and Micol are childhood friends and even have feelings for each other but Micol turns him down because the mixed marriage is banned in the country. Giorgio somehow survives this heartache but can't forget her and comes back. That scene when he comes back her house to meet her and says, 'I love you,' and i was like holy smoke. What the hell is this? A 1920's silent film or what? About three-minute slow scene just to say this and expectedly she denies and finally he says the same thing again that, 'I won't come here again'. Hey buddy, she said the same already then why the hell did you not understand it? And after that, the same silly follow-up. He tails her House and finds her naked with the man she despises. What the hell? Dear Vittorio De Sica, i am a big fan of your work but what the bloody heck was that? Were you making a melodrama in 1920s? I just couldn't digest the fact that the intellegent director like Sica chose such a dumb romance to show War conflicts of Italy. Thankfully, the war conflicts came out fine i mean that was expected because that's something realistic and artistic instead of that soap opera of childhood love becoming sort of obsession in the age when one is supposed to be more matured. Their country and society is about to be torn off and what his friends and Father had to ask him, that how's relation with Micol.. seriously? Well, this one is Sica's weakest in my opinion.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest.
A dumb and boring romance saved by Vittorio De Sica's unusual War Conflicts. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini bored me for a while, actually many times. I was literally saying the dialogues a moment before the character would say it on screen. It was that predictable. The film is based upon Giorgio Bassani's 1962 novel of the same name which tells the story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s. Giorgio and Micol are childhood friends and even have feelings for each other but Micol turns him down because the mixed marriage is banned in the country. Giorgio somehow survives this heartache but can't forget her and comes back. That scene when he comes back her house to meet her and says, 'I love you,' and i was like holy smoke. What the hell is this? A 1920's silent film or what? About three-minute slow scene just to say this and expectedly she denies and finally he says the same thing again that, 'I won't come here again'. Hey buddy, she said the same already then why the hell did you not understand it? And after that, the same silly follow-up. He tails her House and finds her naked with the man she despises. What the hell? Dear Vittorio De Sica, i am a big fan of your work but what the bloody heck was that? Were you making a melodrama in 1920s? I just couldn't digest the fact that the intellegent director like Sica chose such a dumb romance to show War conflicts of Italy. Thankfully, the war conflicts came out fine i mean that was expected because that's something realistic and artistic instead of that soap opera of childhood love becoming sort of obsession in the age when one is supposed to be more matured. Their country and society is about to be torn off and what his friends and Father had to ask him, that how's relation with Micol.. seriously? Well, this one is Sica's weakest in my opinion.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest.