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10/03/08
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
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
There is a vague sense of unease in the air but this remains a tedious movie in which everything remains unspoken, underdeveloped and annoyingly inconclusive.
03/28/09
I didn't know Michael Winterbottom could make a dull movie until now. Genova, otherwise known perhaps as The Narrow Lanes of Genova, is a strange film which seems to have lost its bearings and its direction somewhere between concept and production
10/31/09
I suspect the director was aiming for a sun-blessed version of Don't Look Now, but his ghost story conjures neither suspense nor intrigue.
03/27/09
Genova fails to provide the view with much that is satisfying and instead accomplishes only a superficial examination of grief and the way people respond.
11/05/09
Winterbottom tries to make a modern and meaningful parable. He fails quite miserably.
03/27/09
[Winterbottom] can't quite decide which well-trodden path to walk, either of domestic drama or of supernatural riddle, which should have been a sign that he hasn't really committed to this project.
10/22/08
It is impossible not to admire the fluency and intelligence of Winterbottom's film-making, and his prolific output. Yet Genova is a disappointment, more like a tentative sketch for a movie than the actual finished product.
03/27/09
Winterbottom employs a naturalistic style that, in its self-conscious flatness, becomes an affectation, and the complete, wanton lack of any kind of drama is frustrating.
03/31/09
Slow pace dilutes the few moments of tension. A genre should have been picked and stuck with.
03/26/09
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03/27/09
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
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