In this moving italian drama from filmmaker giuseppe tornatorewho had international success with his previous film cinema paradisoan elderly sicilian. Everything you need to know about everybodys fine movie. It can be said of giuseppe tornatores everybodys fine stanno tutti. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary italy, as matteo journeys to naples, rome. In his latest film, everybodys fine stanno tutti bene at the westside pavilion, he tries to compress modern italys social illusions into one. The movie works because so much of whats on screen will resonate with viewers. Its a remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene english translation. In this film, you will feel pain, joy, wonder, and a feeling somewhere inbetween as you travel with an elderly and charming sicilian man from sicily to the mainland. Everybodys fine vhs, 1992, original italian subtitled. Everybodys fine 2009 official trailer 1 robert deniro movie duration. In a hammy movie that practically demands a hammy lead performance, he is relatively restrained. Jones builds a wider buffer between the characters and the audience. Everybodys fine drives home a wistful message about family.
But jones, a british director best known as the writerdirector of the 1998. Watch everybodys fine online vimeo on demand on vimeo. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid mccartney tune. Like many families, this one had one member, the mother, who operated as a communications hub and mediator. From the smiling faces on the poster, or the liberal use of signed, sealed, delivered throughout the trailer, one might expect a balanced combination of laughter and tears meant to. Franks travelling light but carrying excess baggage uk quad. Stanno tutti beneeverybodys fine 1990 vs 2009 a story about a father who visits his estranged children across the country only to find that his hopes for them havent exactly been fulfilled despite the lies they compose for him at their family meetings. Everybodys fine 2009 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Following the international success of cinema paradiso an oscar, golden globe and cannes special jury prize, italian director giuseppe tornatore comes back with everybodys fine, another. Everybodys fine doesnt strike as forceful an emotional chord as the original. Matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. After seeing everybodys fine, paul mccartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. Everybodys fine, a remake of an italian movie, is a heartfelt, yet depressing and runofthemill, drama. A competent supporting cast, however, wastes their time in this hollow, lukewarm tragicomedy that occasionally arouses our emotions.
An adaptation of the original 1990 italian film and its 2009 american remake with the exact same title, everybodys fine is a chinese version with high production value, but relatively low emotional impact. Mastroianni is effortlessly relaxed and embracing, the life source in a body. Stanno tutti bene is a 1990 italian drama film directed by giuseppe tornatore who cowrote the screenplay with tonino guerra and. Based on the 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene, this is a quietly moving story of a family struggling to reconnect. The marketing for everybodys fine would have you believe that the film is a heartfelt dramedy about a widowed father coming to terms with the fact that his scattered children have, in a sense, outgrown him. Matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. Just go to ebay and search for everybodys fine, 1990. In the summer, all four kids bail on a reunion, so, against doctors. Several other movies will be shooting in new haven and elsewhere in connecticut in the coming months. The movie has its share of gently comedic moments but it is mostly a.
Frank goode lives by himself in elmira, ny, a recent widower with heart trouble, retired from a factory job, proud of having pushed his adult children toward success. Marcello mastroianni, norma martelli and valeria cavalli. Its most notable distinction may be that it was the last movie released by. So he hits the road to visit them collecting various revelations and learning about himself along the way. Everybodys fine follows a dispiritingly predictable arc. The film was written and directed by kirk jones waking ned devine. A proud bluecollar retiree, frank is alarmed at how evasive and tightlipped his kids are, even though he knows they used to confide in his late wife. Italian language by giusepee tornatore in 1990, everybodys fine. Everybodys fine is an unmistakably italian movie that reinforces its culture and traditions. Z hang mengs everybodys fine is somehow even duller than the american remake of giuseppe tornatores original italian film. So you can buy two for the price of one from panjafe. Everybodys fine were as effective, if meretricious, a film as cinema paradiso, it would make you want to rush home and call dad. Everybodys fine 1990 directed by giuseppe tornatore. No, part of my resistance to everybodys fine is due to the fact that i vividly recall its inspiration.
The kids are more than all right in everybodys fine in fact, theyre such goodygoodies that they turn this chinese remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 travelogue drama into parent porn. Everybodys fine 2009 stream and watch online moviefone. A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary italy, as matteo journeys to naples, rome, florence, milan, and turin to search for each of his sons. Jury prize, italian director giuseppe tornatore comes back with everybodys fine, another bittersweet charmer. Everybodys fine 1990 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Rent everybodys fine 2009 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Everybodys fine stanno tutti bene film the guardian. This englishsubtitled italian film is the perfect film to entertain the whole family, except for perhaps younger children. Zhang guoli stars as guan zhiguo, a father of four, in the same role that robert deniro delivered in the american edition. The story is excellent taking place in italy about a family man who has all his grown up children and left to seek their own lives in different cities of italy. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live. Everybodys fine is a remake of a 1991 italian film, stanno tutti bene. The panjafe one comes out of south korea, but it is the identical disc, right down to disc and picture quality, art work, and the combo of korean and english on the box.
He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. Everybodys fine glides along a surface of complete inauthenticity. Characters have no depth and all emotions get ladled on via a syrupy score and. Everybodys fine is based on a 1990 giuseppe tornatore film named stanno tutti bene, which starred marcello mastroianni as a man in the same situation. Everybodys fine official trailer hd frank just lost his wife, and without their mother by his side, franks grown children arent compelled to visit for the holidays. Mastroianni, that icon of the italian cinema, is less bad than dim. An emotionally engaging and touching movie, everybodys fine combines. But fathers like matteo, and films like everybodys fine. Everybodys fine is a quest film that tries to draw together, symbolically, all italy into its singlefamily story, crystallize false national hopes and dreams within the old mans comic.
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