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For Roseanna
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A light-hearted and romantic celebration of life and love in the face of death, For Roseanna pairs international star Jean Reno with Academy Award-winner Mercedes Ruehl as Marcello and Roseanna, a husband and wife whose love knows no bounds.
Marcello, a trattoria proprietor in a small Italian village, will stop at nothing to make sure his dying wife Roseanna will have her wish to be buried in one of the remaining three plots in the ancient village churchyard.
The film is directed by award-winning British director Paul Weiland from a screenplay by veteran television writer/producer Saul Turtletaub. Also starring Polly Walker as Roseanna's wilful younger sister, Cecilia.
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Theatrical report
Italia! Belissima! Il piato es su la tabulata! (Click Here for translation)Anyhoo, what a really funny and poignant film this is. Poignant because of Roseanna's impending death, funny because Marcello cares too much to behave sensibly. For Roseanna walks the fine line between tragedy and farce like the tightrope walker in the opening scene, teetering over a great height that few could manage without falling. It is Shakespeare in its passion and Bart Simpson in its accessibility. (The scary part is that it is co-produced by a subsidiary of Spelling Entertainment, who brought us those televisual gems like Models inc and Central Park West; fortunately For Roseanna is nothing like them!)
Jean and Mercedes (neither of whom are Italian) are the perfect Italian amoristas, loving, passionate, fiery, vocal. The village of Sermoneta which provided most of the exteriors is just stunning, not in that American tourist kind of way, but because it sits in the Italian sunshine singing centuries of tradition across the verdant hills. This beauty is captured throughout the film, both in the production and the performing and the directing and the script. It is sublime. I will stop now before I starts raving. This film must be seen!
Security censorship classification
M (Adult themes)
Surveillance time
98 minutes (1:38 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: Out now
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