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Eat Pray Love (2010)
A movie of questions
Despite the lousy average of stars on IMDb, I liked the movie a lot. Admittedly some characters are only sketched (the first and second boyfriend), but the movie poses some serious questions, and I completely disagree with reviewers who say that it has nothing to say. I like Roberts as actress, and she's very good also in this more serious and tormented character. Bardem is also quite good. I may be just in the right age- group for this movie: at 41 some of the questions that it poses just resonate with me, but I think it is also a likable movie in itself, with some funny moments, a wonderful setting (Rome is always beautiful and Bali is a dream), and very nice music. As an Italian, I may find some of the views on my Country a little stereotyped, but not in an offensive or stupid way: just a bit superficial. All in all, I liked it. Only suggestions is to watch it after dinner, otherwise you will suffer...
Cosa voglio di più (2010)
Good and sad, but still missing something
Nice movie, although a bit too long, and somewhat stuck in the middle. The characters are very well acted, but the story concentrates too much on the two main ones, and they get a bit entangled in it, without enough elaboration on the side characters. It is a hard movie, with a dispassionate analysis of the contemporary Italian society which is quite accurate. Difficult not to be somehow touched by the story. I found the sex scenes somewhat disquieting, with their full account of complete intercourse between the two lovers, nothing left to the imagination, no poetry, just fire and passion, an almost animal frenzy. These scenes are functional to the story, obviously, and contribute to render it sad; they are necessary, in other words. But disquieting just the same. Anyway, good movie, worth your while.