Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Year: 1998 Country: Italy Gender: Drama / Romance Rating:
08/10 Cast: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, John C. Ojwang, Massimo De Rossi, Cyril Nri, Paul and Veronica Lazar
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When the dictator of his country imprisons her husband, a young African woman named Shandurai (Thandie Newton) is forced into exile for political reasons arrives in Italy, where he begins to live in an old Roman house with a British pianist named Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis). In exchange for her to do the housecleaning, the musician will give you a room, and she began to study medicine. Love will come between these two lonely souls, but also come to light its political and cultural differences. "Beautiful Love" start in a country unknown in Africa, to the beat of a song that seems old, sung by a native indeterminate that a few teeth missing. The lighting and framing are remarkably neat. And if not, eat a very calculated carelessness. The same applies to the mounting of cameras dotted slow, small jumps in the size of the cut flat and moving footage, which are the characteristics of certain music forms the category "ethnic rock" that circled the world several times. This kind of gap plan as a spectrum on the film by Bernardo Bertolucci. You can say it's a great little film crossed by a beautiful cadence lyric. Compelling, elegant, memorable and beautiful story of love and friendship; Bertolucci reinvented the talent it lost in Hollywood.
The best of film, no doubt, is Shandurai, the black woman protagonist of the film, played brilliantly by Thandie Newton, she makes history, exoticism, beauty is the flower that must go smelling slowly and defoliating to step up who just wants to be irrigated by water from one who adores. The relationship between Shandurai and pianist is quite logical in the beginning when he gives her an engagement ring is proposing that his wife, and a "I love you ... I love you", girl African rejects the argument that some married and her husband is imprisoned in Africa. But then as you have the story, living together under one roof, music, cultural, economic and security status-artist, seduce women will also be a man with great delicacy, sensitivity and Solidarity: hidden support for their family problems. With this we can say that Bertolucci is able to tell the story with very few words and be quite understandable and deep in the message. Achieved a beneficial and enjoyable association between image and text. And the dimension that moves is a gentle poetic atmosphere. Not to worry if in the course of the story lack any specific information and formal. Although not very significant then subtly illuminate.
The role of David Thewlis is also impressive, not only does this do anything to marry her, but then everything you do and get rid of all the world without seeking anything in return, as not to fall in love, Shandurai delivery succeeds. And it happens unexpectedly, hang time she fell in love not by what the teacher is able to do for her but for his simple ability to deliver. The delivery capacity is also an attribute that is already present in Shandurai and her husband, but the pianist is exercised in a way as absolute as possible. It is a passion that is apparent even in its ambition to possess the one you love. It's pure generosity. Something in the film is taken slowly, subtly but firmly to such a degree of hyperbole that is ideal ... Against a background of things that are physically, objects, dust, food, political problems, diseases, sounds, colors, pains, desires, creating something densely poetic. What we propose is a somewhat more active participation as viewers. Two continents will be contacted and they will viscerally. Here is the heart of the boss. They are musical worlds and emotions that are printed which intermingle (Mozart, Bach and Grieg) talk with Papa Wemba and Salif Keita. We are so accustomed to other cultures and identify dangerous Bernardo Bertolucci decided to remind the Western world from other ancestral territories also comes the beauty.
Although the film has some flaws, these are covered by the poetry, or if you like lyricism, with the lighting, framing and mounting punctuate the narrative. And poetry is no accountability to the realism. This is a film that could not have worked, such as radiography growth of love. But Bertolucci did not know or refused to comply with that. And the sociopolitical touches mented always misplaced, you can sum the affected dignity Shandurai spilled over, sometimes stresses the tone and others are shipped directly to the cries, as when he spits out poor Mr. Kinsky, "What do you know you African? " is within the coordinates and attractive love this director used to give his films. I really loved it, not the first time that the vision, but the second and the third even more. The scene where he masturbates Shandurai electrifies the hormones of any human being that note, it is great to focus on his face, his lips and fingers. Not just words, in ninety minutes with a fresh style which already would any young director, Bertolucci creates a great little film with a camera with more depth than many symphonies, a dialogue between people, cultures, feelings and situations. I think it's another film centered on this thing called love, but told in such a way that makes it unique. Extraordinary use of music as an interpretative element in the film.
"Beautiful Love" is a marvelous work and welcoming. A love story in which the protagonists are faced with different external circumstances and inner conflicts, related to moral and political partner, issues that much pressure on the definition of their destiny and that the director incorporated as a truthful and objective evidence of contemporary. In the two cultures will relate tape, a woman brings a musical resonance and an infinite universe of light reflected from the skin and due to it always, a man in a very expansive in his life, suggests a new harmony, so suggesting that she will not be indifferent. And how not to do if in addition to talent this time lover was expressed in concrete actions nobility and absence of speculation. For this class of men and women there is no idea of \u200b\u200bthe cost of a relationship. If we as outside observers see who resign or follow from anything for them this is a moment of happiness, the opportunity to make an offering to his love. Bertolucci built very subtle "puzzle" in a love affair, reflects precisely and growing mastery of the feelings of man, by the chemical process of their looks and their approaches and clumsy and broken chess horse. For Bertolucci film lovers , must.
"A great little film by Bertolucci"
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