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03/27/09
Genova (2008)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:30
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Michael Winterbottom’s tale of grief and mourning, though frustrating in places, is intelligent filmmaking with superb central performances.
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Hope Davis, Colin Firth, Perla Haney-Jardine, Catherine Keener
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Reviews for Genova
Credit, though, has to go to Winterbottom for the way he uses Genova’s menacing alleys and chaotic traffic to create tension.
03/27/09
Beautifully acted and rich in atmosphere, what follows is an intriguing, deeply felt, intelligent exploration of the way family members can find their way back to one another after tragedy threatens to push them apart.
03/27/09
As solid as you’d look for from Winterbottom and this cast, but the touches of supernatural thriller in an otherwise rather conventional coming-to-terms-with-bereavement drama aren’t entirely convincing.
03/27/09
With a stronger third act and less spiritual flounce this could have been something really special, but as it stands its merely a solid entry in the versatile writer/director's CV that will no doubt be eclipsed by whatever he chooses to do next.
03/28/09
It can be to mix a strange city with devastating loss. It’s at once a deeply sad film and a deeply truthful and optimistic one.
03/27/09
...sustains one's interest from start to finish.
12/14/08
This is a much more intimately reflective drama than Winterbottom usually supplies, and it tells us a lot about loss in a dozen small ways. The cast, particularly the children, do the director proud.
03/27/09
A film that’s ambiguous, involving and very intelligent indeed.
03/27/09
Mainstream audiences may rue the lack of a dramatic arc or conventional plot, but this beautifully photographed and emotive tale proves to be achingly authentic and heartfelt without resorting to perfunctory flashbacks and soppy musical montages.
11/01/09
Though he labours the symbolism of the maze, Winterbottom infuses this otherwise subtle observational drama with the verisimilitude that has become his chief style signature.
11/04/09
Oikogeneiako drama se forma psyhologikoy thriler poy soy dialyei to manikioyr, me stoiheia metafysikoy na dieyrynoyn to lyrismo toy
11/08/08
A brooding drama about grief, which is greatly aided by the performances and its scenic locations.
11/03/09
Life affirming and warm, Genova captures a great sense of place as we explore the intricate maze of cobbled streets, the historic buildings with peeling facades and well-worn green shutters, sunny beaches and dense forests
10/31/09
It’s an extremely well-made film, but just a bit too subdued for my taste.
11/04/09
Locations are beautiful, but it is all rather straightforward and plodding.
03/27/09
Haunting, suspenseful and powerfully emotional, this is a brilliantly directed drama with terrific performances from Firth, Holland and Haney-Jardine.
10/23/08
Part psychodrama, part Italian travelogue, Michael Winterbottom’s latest is the progeny of an A-list film-maker and B-movie material.
03/28/09
After his playful turn in Mamma Mia!, Firth cuts an altogether more sombre figure in this thoughtful study of bereavement. With no shock twist or homicidal dwarf up its sleeve, though, Winterbottom’s film seems a little self-defeating.
03/27/09
Join up the dots in Michael Winterbottom’s new film and you get the outline of a shaggy dog. But if Genova meanders, it has an ensorcelling, even zodiacal charm.
03/27/09
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