In the director's cut, the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush, all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes.
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07/19/02
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Cinema Paradiso Director's Cut (2002)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.7/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jun 14, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso is the story of a famous Italian film director who returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years away. At home he is re-connected with he life and... [More]
Starring: Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli, Leo Gullotta, Marco Leonardi
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Reviews for Cinema Paradiso Director's Cut
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Top CriticThe film's final hour, where nearly all the previous unseen material resides, is unconvincing soap opera that Tornatore was right to cut.
07/19/02
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07/19/02
Top CriticStill rapturous after all these years, Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love.
07/11/02
Top CriticThis director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera.
06/28/02
Top CriticWhere the original release was an essay in childish delight and adolescent longing, topped off by a muted coda implying that you really can go home again, the reissue is a fully realized epic of the heart.
06/28/02
Top CriticI'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes.
06/28/02
Top CriticLess front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990.
06/27/02
Top CriticAs it turns out, you can go home again.
06/27/02
Top CriticI don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. But I do.
06/27/02
Top CriticThe new version isn't just endless. It heightens the deeply conservative spirit of Giuseppe Tornatore's fable in a surprising new way.
06/15/02
Top CriticMore romantic, more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original.
06/14/02
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