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To watch Gianni Amelio's luminous The Way We Laughed is to reconnect with Italian cinema in all its richness of emotion and command of expressive gesture. Aug 15, 2002 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
To watch Gianni Amelio's luminous The Way We Laughed is to reconnect with Italian cinema in all its richness of emotion and command of expressive gesture.
Kevin Thomas
A haunting, richly textured film that, like the Italian director's unforgettable Lamerica, dramatizes the plight of poverty on an epic scale. Jun 14, 2002 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A haunting, richly textured film that, like the Italian director's unforgettable Lamerica, dramatizes the plight of poverty on an epic scale.
Damon Smith
... a masterpiece about filial love and the horrors of poverty. Mar 21, 2002 | Rating: 4/4
... a masterpiece about filial love and the horrors of poverty.
Michael Wilmington
This is the kind of European film you rarely see anymore, with characters and circumstances that are easily debatable. Two viewers may never reach the same conclusion about the film. Feb 8, 2002
This is the kind of European film you rarely see anymore, with characters and circumstances that are easily debatable. Two viewers may never reach the same conclusion about the film.
Marta Barber
The making of this picture is so sure that hope for Amelio, for his future, is almost forced on us. Dec 5, 2001
The making of this picture is so sure that hope for Amelio, for his future, is almost forced on us.
Stanley Kauffmann
More frustrating than gripping thanks to the fractured, often confusing narrative and the director's pro-pensity for extremely long takes. Nov 30, 2001
More frustrating than gripping thanks to the fractured, often confusing narrative and the director's pro-pensity for extremely long takes.
Frank Scheck
It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming. Dec 8, 2002 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
Saul Austerlitz
An unusual, tremendously moving film that nicely assumes we can read between the pictures. May 24, 2002 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
An unusual, tremendously moving film that nicely assumes we can read between the pictures.
Kim Morgan
Amelio ... understands the loneliness, suspicion and uncertainty that plague immigrants in a land where they can't get familiar work or speak a familiar tongue. May 10, 2002 | Full Review…
Amelio ... understands the loneliness, suspicion and uncertainty that plague immigrants in a land where they can't get familiar work or speak a familiar tongue.
Lawrence Toppman
It's tragic, sad and deeply moving. Mar 23, 2002 | Rating: 71/100
It's tragic, sad and deeply moving.
Ryan Cracknell
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality. Feb 7, 2002
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
David Ehrenstein
The absorbing tale, in the rich dialect of Southern Italy (and not in standard Italian), is ... well-written and acted. Dec 9, 2001 | Full Review…
The absorbing tale, in the rich dialect of Southern Italy (and not in standard Italian), is ... well-written and acted.
Maria Garcia
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