In August 1944, a group of people decide to leave their village in the Tuscan countryside to find the advancing American army. Unfortunately, their adventure will prove dangerous because both retiring Germans and bands of Fascists are still around and chasing everybody.
The story is told - more or less, because she does not witness many events - from the point of view of an annoying 6 yo child, who likes to listen to the Iliad poem narrated by an old man (hence the poster).
The best part of the movie lasts 30 seconds and not for nothing it is the one you see in the poster: a Fascist impaled by the spears of imaginary Greek warriors. This happens towards the end, during a bloody and tragic fight in a wheat field.
Could have been a great story but most actors are awful (the girl playing Mara being the top worse) and the dialogues sound like nothing real people would say. The lack of focus on one character (apart from the mean child) doesn't help, either. Finally, maybe it's just a technical issue, but it was difficult to understand the dialogue.
I saw the movie in the original version and I am Italian, yet I couldn't understand half of the conversations because the actors spoke too fast or shouted their lines.
The film is bookended by the grown-up child speaking to her own child during the night of shooting stars, but it's a useless device hence the title doesn't really tie with the plot.
The story is told - more or less, because she does not witness many events - from the point of view of an annoying 6 yo child, who likes to listen to the Iliad poem narrated by an old man (hence the poster).
The best part of the movie lasts 30 seconds and not for nothing it is the one you see in the poster: a Fascist impaled by the spears of imaginary Greek warriors. This happens towards the end, during a bloody and tragic fight in a wheat field.
Could have been a great story but most actors are awful (the girl playing Mara being the top worse) and the dialogues sound like nothing real people would say. The lack of focus on one character (apart from the mean child) doesn't help, either. Finally, maybe it's just a technical issue, but it was difficult to understand the dialogue.
I saw the movie in the original version and I am Italian, yet I couldn't understand half of the conversations because the actors spoke too fast or shouted their lines.
The film is bookended by the grown-up child speaking to her own child during the night of shooting stars, but it's a useless device hence the title doesn't really tie with the plot.