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05/14/05
Primo Amore (2005)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:10
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.8/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Italian director Matteo Garrone (THE EMBALMER) returns with PRIMO AMORE, a harrowing psychological drama about a truly dysfunctional man. Vittorio (a striking Vitaliano Trevisan) is a goldsmith who... [More]
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02/09/06
...never gets enough beneath the surface to justify [Vittorio's] eventual transformation into something out of a horror movie.
04/28/05
Primo Amore tunnels deeply enough into its characters' psyches to reach classic tragedy levels.
04/29/05
Could do with a bit more plot: It doesn't resolve so much as collapse in utter desolation.
04/28/05
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.
05/13/05
Probing the trust-based power games of a sadomasochistic dynamic, the movie is a reasonably thoughtful study of obsessive love.
03/29/05
Top CriticToo claustrophobic and writ small for my taste.
03/26/05
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.
03/23/05
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.
05/21/05
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.
03/29/05
It feels like a sketch for a larger work that would go beyond the well-worn insights of diet literature.
04/08/05
Top CriticThe atmosphere is once again black, creepy and unsettlingly elegant, lending this twisted tale of psychological dominance and submission a patina of anxiety and dread.
04/01/05
Connecting the tenuous expository scenes are hard-hitting moments as Sonia continues to starve herself, and Vittorio offers rewards and punishments.
04/08/05
An elegantly told tale of obsession.
04/28/05
Top CriticThe scenario is ludicrous, yet it's filmed and performed in such a way that it creates unbearable tension.
04/06/05
Top CriticSet 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.
04/04/05
As lovely to watch as it is painful to contemplate.
02/22/07
While engaging, pic eventually betrays itself as having a trivial attitude to its chosen subject.
04/07/05
[A] wonderfully quirky love story.
04/06/05
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