Average Rating: 6.6/10
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Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 20
A sweet, but slight picture filled with beautiful people and locations.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 7
A sweet, but slight picture filled with beautiful people and locations.
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Italian director Emanuele Crialese's Respiro tells an intimate tale of a family living in a quiet fishing community. Grazia (Valeria Golino) is deeply committed to her husband Pietro (Vincenzo Amato) and their children, as well as stray dogs. She suffers from extreme mood swings that result in serious physical attacks in times of high anxiety. Pietro decides to send her to get help, but this prompts Grazia to run away. She survives with the help of her son Pasquale (Francesco Casisa). Respiro
May 23, 2003 Wide
Oct 21, 2003
$0.9M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (92) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (20) | DVD (9)
A sad, slight film but with a sweet, smooth finish that makes you feel richer for having watched and absorbed and felt.
A small, sensual and unforgettable Italian drama that transports us to a place wonderfully exotic yet strangely familiar.
A beautifully scenic but languid character study that could use a shot of adrenalin and a more straightforward story line.
A quietly disarming drama by Emanuele Crialese that tugs at family ties and calls into question the conventional definition of 'normal.'
Valeria Golino proves she can act as good as she looks.
Somewhere along the way, Respiro just seems to run out of breath.
Crialese's stated purpose is to create a sense of magical realism, and even as he draws on an actual fable to do so, there's an incomplete feeling to the production.
It is sort of the opposite of 'Northern Exposure' where everyone is quirky, and loving it. Here, quirkiness is opposed strongly.
Respiro begins as a portrait of a woman who refuses to abide by the conventions of the comunity and ends with a bit of inspired magical realism.
Though the story is warmly humanistic it is too paper thin to mean much.
We're slouched back with our heads resting on the tops of the seats, relaxing and letting our minds leap out of our heads to spend 95 minutes at play in Lampedusa.
A mixture of great Italian cinema and fluffy silliness.
An inviting performance by Golino and some outstanding underwater photography enliven director/writer Emanuele Crialese's adaptation of an Italian legend.
(*** 1/2):
April 6, 2007
The performances are great,the visuals are beautiful and the story is magical! "Respiro" is moving and mystical italian drama. 6.50/10 [center][/center]
March 1, 2006
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