Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 371
An artist's strange obsessions take a grim toll on the woman he's fascinated with in this drama from Italy. Vittorio (Vitaliano Trevisan) is a jewelry designer who is set up on a blind date with Sonia (Michela Cescon), a attractive woman whose figure is slightly zaftig but well proportioned. Over the course of their date, Vittorio, an obsessive artist who doesn't do well in contact with others, tells Sonia, who is close to few people besides her brother, that he would be more interested in her
Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.
Feb 13, 2004 Wide
Aug 16, 2005
Strand Releasing
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (9) | DVD (1)
An elegantly told tale of obsession.
It feels like a sketch for a larger work that would go beyond the well-worn insights of diet literature.
While engaging, pic eventually betrays itself as having a trivial attitude to its chosen subject.
The scenario is ludicrous, yet it's filmed and performed in such a way that it creates unbearable tension.
[A] wonderfully quirky love story.
Set in northern Italy and in the darkest recesses of a woman's heart, Primo Amore is a horror movie about desire and the toxic pursuit of perfection.
As lovely to watch as it is painful to contemplate.
Perhaps it's appropriate that a tale about the avoidance of food should be so unappetizing, but that doesn't make it any more enjoyable to watch.
This is not a great date movie, unless you know your partner will let you have popcorn AND candy and not make you suffer for it later.
Primo Amore tunnels deeply enough into its characters' psyches to reach classic tragedy levels.
...never gets enough beneath the surface to justify [Vittorio's] eventual transformation into something out of a horror movie.
Could do with a bit more plot: It doesn't resolve so much as collapse in utter desolation.
Connecting the tenuous expository scenes are hard-hitting moments as Sonia continues to starve herself, and Vittorio offers rewards and punishments.
The atmosphere is once again black, creepy and unsettlingly elegant, lending this twisted tale of psychological dominance and submission a patina of anxiety and dread.
An engrossing Italian psychodrama about a driven man's obsession with a warped vision of beauty and a woman's sad subservience to his efforts to make her over.
Too claustrophobic and writ small for my taste.
Primo Amore is as moody as Matteo Garrone's previous feature, The Embalmer, from which it seems to have pilfered much of its metaphoric import.
Well, catching up on my ratings...
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