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The First Beautiful Thing
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"Pandolfi gives such an exquisitely understated performance that you don't realize until the very end that the film was as much about her character as it was about Bruno and Anna." | ||
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"'The First Beautiful Thing' is the kind of movie - that escapes the sick room to cavort at carnivals and eat cotton candy until the inevitable relapse." | ||
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"Occasionally affecting but unremarkable" | ||
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"Virzì's delicate touch and the cast's uniformly captivating performances make that reckoning a lovely, charmingly melancholy thing to watch." | ||
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"Overall it's sappy and predictable -- fun to watch, perhaps, but instantly forgettable." | ||
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"Spans four decades of a troubled family with enough gentle pathos and sly humor to compensate for a less than original storyline." | ||
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"This was Italy's official submission for Best Foreign Film to the 2011 Academy Awards (a red flag more often than not), and, sure enough there's little here that rises above middlebrow." | ||
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"A streak of 'Cinema Paradiso' runs through this Italian dramedy - and while it lacks that film's overflowing emotion, it's filled with its own artfulness and warmth." |
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