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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (3)
Virzi approaches mawkishness but he never crosses the line. Aug 25, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4
Virzi approaches mawkishness but he never crosses the line.
Tom Keogh
"The First Beautiful Thing'' is shameless, and, damn it, I cried anyway. Jun 9, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
"The First Beautiful Thing'' is shameless, and, damn it, I cried anyway.
Ty Burr
Occasionally affecting but unremarkable. Apr 20, 2011 | Full Review…
Occasionally affecting but unremarkable.
Jay Weissberg
Virzi has hit his stride in this polished but delicate comedy-drama. Apr 20, 2011 | Full Review…
Virzi has hit his stride in this polished but delicate comedy-drama.
Natasha Senjanovic
It's filled with its own artfulness and warmth. Apr 20, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's filled with its own artfulness and warmth.
Joe Neumaier
Virsi sharpens the sentimentality of the emotional setup to a nicely serrated edge. Apr 15, 2011 | Full Review…
Virsi sharpens the sentimentality of the emotional setup to a nicely serrated edge.
Ella Taylor
A warm and welcome foreign film treat about learning to cope with the fact that one's parents are actually people too. Jul 14, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…
A warm and welcome foreign film treat about learning to cope with the fact that one's parents are actually people too.
Brent Simon
The high-pitched emotions, gesticulations and occasional near-hysteria seem completely normal and genuine. Jul 7, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The high-pitched emotions, gesticulations and occasional near-hysteria seem completely normal and genuine.
Stan Hall
A lovely Italian throwback about a loner vocational school professor coming to terms with the death of his mother and the sources of his present-day unhappiness. Jun 10, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
A lovely Italian throwback about a loner vocational school professor coming to terms with the death of his mother and the sources of his present-day unhappiness.
James Verniere
It's especially striking how effectively Ramazotti's and Sandrelli's performances as Anna blend together so smoothly. Together, they create a portrait of a woman who lacked all the necessary skills to be a parent, except to fiercely love her children. Jun 10, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's especially striking how effectively Ramazotti's and Sandrelli's performances as Anna blend together so smoothly. Together, they create a portrait of a woman who lacked all the necessary skills to be a parent, except to fiercely love her children.
Rob Thomas
The film becomes wearisome due to Virzì's indulgent use of busy, overstated flashbacks. Jun 10, 2011 | Full Review…
The film becomes wearisome due to Virzì's indulgent use of busy, overstated flashbacks.
Gerald Peary
In films such as the Italian The First Beautiful Thing, the mother/whore dichotomy collapses in whimsical ways: The mother is the whore. Apr 17, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
In films such as the Italian The First Beautiful Thing, the mother/whore dichotomy collapses in whimsical ways: The mother is the whore.
Diego Semerene
La Prima Cossa Bella, a beautiful Italian family drama, it will be in the coming Oscars nomination for best Foreign Movie,was about a dysfunctional family, showing anger of a child towards his mother.The movie showed flashbacks of the boy Bruno in his troubled childhood and young adulthood in the 1970's and 1980's.I must say too much was happening here, and it was unclear whether the movie was really about Bruno or the wild life their mother was leading.The earlier scenes were long and they overwhelm the portrait of Bruno as an adult, and the present narrative showed him in his feel-good reunions, his own alcohol-drug problem, and his dying mother.Director Paolo Virzi made here his best movie, one that made you cry and laugh at the same time.
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