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Correspondence

La corrispondenza

2016

Giuseppe Tornatore

Jeremy Irons, Olga Kurylenko, Shauna Macdonald, Darren Whitfield ...

5.3

1,073

Drama It tells the story of a young female university student who spends her free time performing as a stuntwoman in TV programmes and movies, immersed in dangerous situations that wind up with the death of her body double. At first glance it could appear to be an obsession fuelled by her appetite for risk-taking, but in reality it is the way in which the athletic young woman tricks herself into sublimating a horrible sense of guilt: that of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s an easy watch, though it certainly could have benefited from a little British warmth and humor (totally absent here.) The English dialogue is also much too elaborate and stilted to be anywhere near believable, further undercutting any remnant of realism."	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Even if Tornatore were deliberately aiming for the artificiality that clings to nearly every frame, the pic would still feel needlessly airless, hampered by an Italian-to-English script translation that may be precise but lacks naturalism."	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Little can be done to disguise the weakness of an undercooked script based on an idea Tornatore apparently had in his bottom drawer for decades."	NEG

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