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Giorni e nuvole (2007)
Soldini old style
After three movies that elevated him from d'essai circuits in terms of box office results, director Silvio Soldini returns to more dramatic and current themes closer to his debuts. Middle-class families can't afford financial problems, that's seems to be the sense of the movie. Step after step all certainties and habits of a Genova's well off family, crawl down after Michele (Antonio Albanese) lost his work. Soldini as always, has the sensibility and the touch to treat such difficult material, but nevertheless the script (of the same author with Tiziana Leondeff) never reach the audience. The story advances laboriously, the non-core characters are just sketched and stereotyped, and most of all the main character, Antonio Albanese, not has the necessary depth, his Michele seems a man who could not accept the consequences of his actions, ever astonished by the behavior of the rest of human race, including members of his family. Early the movie slips toward a foreseeable descent, tell the truth, in the end there's a bit of relief. Great waste of talent for the performance of Margherita Buy, as always measured and effective. Awful soundtrack, by the way.
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Classical but unnecessary
Tipical golden-age western plot, a bunch of reluctant heroes in a suicide mission against the bad guy (and, as usually, his army of well armed companions). The main problem with this movie, like many other American commercial movies, especially westerns, is originality. Elmer Bernstein score is like one hundred other westerns music scores, the main character, George "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Peppard as the captain Douglas, is very much annoyed all the time; Giovanna Ralli and Raf Vallone apparently in paid holiday and the director Paul Vendkos (poor guy!) has made the capital mistake, I really think he has seen "The Professionals" by Richard Brooks (1966), that is the better version of the same story (by the way, is a masterpiece). The most notable thing of this unfortunate movie is George Peppard's cigar that you can see in "The A-Team" television series all through the eighties.