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Italy, Spain, United Kingdom · 2004
2h 5m
Director Sergio Castellitto
Starring Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini, Penélope Cruz, Angela Finocchiaro
Genre Drama, Romance
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While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It is a beautifully made film - decorously composed, meticulously acted, cleanly photographed. But all of these qualities make it seem complacent and hypocritical when it wants to be honest and brave, and sentimental rather than emotionally daring.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The story wants to be a sort of "Last Tango in Paris" redux, but it falls into mere melodrama after a brilliant beginning.
In his second outing as a director, top thesp Sergio Castellitto (also playing the surgeon) takes the viewer on an emotion-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. However, it is Penelope Cruz who gives the film's knockout performance.
A compelling if not altogether convincing tale of mad love and divine redemption, adapted from the prize-winning novel by Castellitto's wife, Margaret Mazzantini.
Cruz's willingness to allow her appearance to be so degraded for cinema's sake doesn't really help.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice.
Castellitto deserves great credit for toning down the melodrama in wife Margaret Mazzantini's novel and producing a very human story about chance, choice and consequence.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.
The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson
There's nothing cute, cloying, or playful about the lovers in Sergio Castellitto's opaque romantic drama Don't Move, but in their way, they're as incomprehensible as the stars of any gimmicky comic love film.
The script is morose and unfocused - not to mention hard to believe and insulting to women.
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