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Finally Dawn

2023

Lily James, Rebecca Antonaci, Joe Keery, Rachel Sennott ...

Drama A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

	Author	Review
United States	Rafaela Sales Ross The Playlist	"[There's a] bitter aftertaste of dullness, an unforgivable sin within the art form Constanzo seems so set on paying tribute to"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A tasty, showbizzy crowd-pleaser and romantic melodrama with a vivid streak of surreal absurdity in the tradition of Federico Fellini (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is uneven, and at 2 hours and 20 minutes indulgently long, but it is also full of texture, wit and a few done-to-perfection set pieces"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A dull, black dahlia-like nystery (...) The performers in 'Finally Dawn' are its weakest feature: big and broad, prone to pantomime, clashing with whatever it is their colleagues are doing"	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"One of the film’s simplest pleasures is its evocation of the craft, business and outreach of cinema during the golden years of 'Hollywood on the Tiber' (...) The most accomplished work to date by the director"	POS
United States	Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly	"A surreal vision of coming-in-age via cinema, and James fully sells the movie star mayhem at its center. But it can't overcome its meandering script and hollow depiction of the era"	NEU
United States	Steph Green IndieWire	"Saverio Costanzo’s driverless feature seems to constantly make us ask ourselves the question: Why does any of this matter, and why should we care?"	NEG
	Jan Lumholdt Cineuropa	"Saverio Costanzo regales us with a personal and clever cinematic variation on selected themes from the films of Federico Fellini"	POS

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