Released on: 1989
Rating: 7.40
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Before the Revolution – review
Bernardo Bertolucci's brilliant early film about political and emotional tensions in mid-60s Italy is still just as powerful as when it was first released, writes Peter Bradshaw
Bernardo Bertolucci's 1964 film was made when he was just 22 years old. With its freewheeling approach, its passion, its talkiness and cinephilia, it is unmistakably influenced by the French new wave. Yet it has a very Italian and distinctively patrician concern with Catholicism and Marxism. The title is taken from a remark from Talleyrand about life being sweet before the revolution; the sentiment is here applied with irony. Fabrizio (Francesco Barilli) is a well-to-do young man, troubled by the ethical demands of communism, and in angry revolt against his stultifying family. He begins a secret affair with his elegant, mercurial aunt Gina (Adriana Asti), a transgression that clarifies and intensifies his general discontent. Is this a pre-revolutionary mood? Or is this the revolution itself,»
- Peter Bradshaw
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Mars Needs Moms – review
An animated comedy involving Martians kidnapping Earth's mothers that is pretty much devoid of entertaiment or wit, says Peter Bradshaw
Released in time to be far too late for Mother's Day, this moderate 3D animation has digitally created performances from Seth Green, as a little kid who has to rescue his mom (Joan Cusack) from Martians. Why, oh why, are the Martians kidnapping mothers, you ask? Well, they raise their own young using "nannybots", but need to capture our planet's mothers and somehow extract the authentic mom-mojo and inject it into the robots. Possibly. It really is the most lame and unthought-through script; family comedies about Martians don't need to be plausible exactly, but they need to be smart and entertaining. This one is ho-hum, so-so and so what?
Rating: 2/5
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- Peter Bradshaw
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