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Incantato (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 14

Fresh: 10

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 5.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release: Sep 24, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: INCANTATO is a dazzling comedy with a poignant streak set in the Rome and Bologna of the 1920s. It tells the story of Nello Balocchi, 35, a shy and clumsy man devoted to the academic world, sent by his father – a pragmatic businessman and... INCANTATO is a dazzling comedy with a poignant streak set in the Rome and Bologna of the 1920s. It tells the story of Nello Balocchi, 35, a shy and clumsy man devoted to the academic world, sent by his father – a pragmatic businessman and womanizer who happens to be the Pope's tailor – to teach at a high school in Bologna in the hope that living in such an emancipated city will allow him to find a wife at last, thus giving the family its eagerly awaited heir. On reaching Bologna, Nello goes to live in a pensione run by Arabella where he shares a room with a Neapolitan barber, thanks to whose advice he gradually gets to know the fairer sex. While he discovers that he has a great talent for teaching, the search for a soul mate is unsuccessful. Until the day he finds himself at a tea dance in a home for blind women, by chance or sent there by Providence. There, Nello meets a “femme fatale”, Angela Gardini, the most beautiful and open-minded young woman in all Bologna, who turns his life upside down. This marks the start of an unusual relationship between the candid, inexperienced man and the gorgeous woman who has lost her eyesight in an accident. An unpredictable love story between two "outsiders". -- © Artistic License [More]

Starring: Giancarlo Giannini

Starring: Giancarlo Giannini

Director: Pupi Avati

Director: Pupi Avati
Studio: Northern Arts Entertainment

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Apr 25, 2006

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DVD Features:

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  • Widescreen - 2.35

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Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.

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01/07/05
Wesley Morris
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A mostly pleasant entertainment.

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12/17/04
Robert Denerstein
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Charmingly embodying the dreamy seeker, Neri Marcore as Nello has a dignity and forcefulness that illuminate this winning tale.

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12/17/04
Michael Booth
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There are few outright laughs, but the telling is gentle.

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10/29/04
Kim Williamson
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A poignant love story, laced with tenderness and gentle humor and told with the warmth of Italian movies in their seductively good-natured mode.

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10/28/04
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Under Avati's shaky stewardship, the picture is leaden and charmless.

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10/28/04
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly
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It's a warm bath experience, soap-sudsed with sentimentality, improbability and other storytelling misdemeanors.

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10/08/04
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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A sweet, charming and entirely forgettable romantic comedy.

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09/24/04
Ethan Alter
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Touching, if slow-moving­, Italian import.

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09/24/04
Robert Dominguez
New York Daily News
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A pleasant but lifeless love story set in the 1920s.

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09/24/04
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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In this heartsick romance, a schoolteacher arrives in 1920's Bologna to seek some adventure for his repressed Roman soul.

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09/23/04
Ned Martel
New York Times
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If you can suspend your disbelief regarding Nello's naïveté, this film offers some quiet pleasures.

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09/21/04
Leslie Camhi
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01/13/04
Sunday Times (Australia)
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It might help you sleep better, but it offers nothing that's going to stimulate the mind or touch the soul like a well-programmed festival picture should.

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05/21/03
Michael Rechtshaffen
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