It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
The Way We Laughed(Così ridevano)
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Italy · 1998
2h 4m
Director Gianni Amelio
Starring Enrico Lo Verso, Francesco Giuffrida, Fabrizio Gifuni, Calogero Caruana
Genre Drama
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Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
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New Times (L.A.) by David Ehrenstein
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
Problematically structured, overly protracted and lacking in narrative fluidity.
Writer-director Gianni Amelio masterfully chronicles the ways two people can betray each other, and especially themselves, in the name of love.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A ponderously slow experience.
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Longwinded, slow-starting but moving film.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Wears its art, as well as its heart, on its sleeve -- so much so that I feel guilty for not liking it more.
The film, beautifully shot in widescreen by Luca Bigazzi, is surprisingly accessible and always engaging, if ultimately tragic.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
The sweeping, confounding conclusion therefore unfolds with a beauty and an ease that seem truly organic. The Way We Laughed has that feeling of being a work of art.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
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