If you loved Cinema Paradiso, try Baaria
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Baaria hat ungefähr 7.2× Stimmen weniger als Cinema Paradiso — ein tieferer Cut, keine Mainstream-Empfehlung. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
Was sie teilen
Both films are directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cinema Paradiso, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Baaria is
Giuseppe Tornatore here attempts the big, multi-generational family drama. It follows Peppino from his 1920s childhood in Sicily through his Communist Party activism and family life. It is, if nothing else, certainly a very long film.
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