Il Postino

Il Postino
by Michael Radford

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Actor: Linda Moretti, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Renato Scarpa
Director: Michael Radford
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 108 minutes
Release Date: 1998-02-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Miramax
Studio: Miramax

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Movie Review: Am I the Only One??
Summary: 3 Stars

that thinks that many of these acclaimed Foreign films, and especially, the Italian films ( I am Italian myself ) are dull and plodding??

They take the most small and trivial of situations and then labor through it for 2 hours.

In this case, IL POSTINO, my feeling is that it looked like it had to be chop edited to make a certain amount of running time. There were many jump points that bore inconsistency.

the lead girl couldn't be less interested in the main character, or men, in general, however, several scenes later , she is seductively rolling a plastic ball in her mouth.

The Aunt or matron or whatever she was, of the lead girl, is ready to shoot the suitor with a shotgun, but then, after he whisks her off for an elopement style marriage, we see no repercussions whatsoever, in fact, he is now a worker in the small cafe of the angry matron.

Blink your eyes, and there is a grown up son walking around.....blink once more, and a completely tragic event occurs off screen without any sort of buildup whatsoever.

Minutes after finishing that movie, I was scanning movie channels on cable, and happened upon Forrest Gump, and then, hypnotically glued to this movie, in spite of the fact that I had seen it so many times before, and after yet another great cry at the ending, I said to myself: THIS is beauty and THIS is profoundness.......

sorry: in my humble opinion, many of these foreign films and especially this one, don't quite compare.

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Summary of Il Postino

Cheered by critics and audiences everywhere, IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN) is the record-breaking Academy Award(R)-winning romantic comedy that delivers heartfelt laughs! Mario is a bumbling mailman who's madly in love with the most beautiful woman in town ... and who's too shy to tell her how he feels. But when a world-famous poet -- Pablo Neruda -- moves into town, Mario is inspired. With Neruda's help, he finds the right words to win the woman's heart! This unforgettably funny comedy proves that passion ... with some artful deception ... can win the most improbable love!

Italian star and filmmaker Massimo Troisi was dying of heart failure even before this film, his dream project, began production, and he prevailed upon British director Michael Radford (White Mischief) to see him and the film through to the end. (The 40-year-old Troisi, a beloved comic actor in Italy, died the day production wrapped.) Based on true events, Troisi plays a shy postman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret). Through Neruda's example and tutelage, the hero learns to think of his Italian fishing village in lyrical terms, as well as how to talk to women and even find the strength to take his political stands. Sweet as it is, the film finally pushes beyond its charming borders to become an even more complex and poignant story about the pain of growing into one's destiny. --Tom Keogh

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