The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS]
by Vittorio De Sica
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Actor: Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio, Romolo ValliDirector: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Alain Katz
Writer: Cesare Zavattini
Writer: Franco Brusati
Writer: Giorgio Bassani
Writer: Tullio Pinelli
Writer: Ugo Pirro
Writer: Valerio Zurlini
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 94 minutes
Release Date: 2000-02-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS]
Movie Review: For patient viewers
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
There's no getting around the fact that The Garden of the Finzi-Continis often moves at a glacial pace, but if you stick with it until the ending it might be able to move you too; a different style of Holocaust story than I'm accustomed to and one told with intelligence, it's a movie I'm glad I watched even though I never want to watch it again.
3/4
Summary of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS]
Set in northern Italy's Ferrara community at the outbreak of World War II, this classic film by Vittorio De Sica concerns an old, aristocratic Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, who maintain their isolated, idyllic ways within the stone walls of their lush estate while Mussolini imprisons Jews outside. The story's central figure, young Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), is a middle-class Jew who has always found perfect sanctuary within the Finzi-Continis' walls and who is in love with his childhood friend from that family, Micol (Dominique Sanda). Micol, however, is sexually restless and fit to burst for want of experiences impossible under government oppression. As Giorgio suffers his estrangement from her, De Sica traces the disintegration of a lost and beautiful way of life, slowly turning his focus from the privileged refuge of tennis courts and private libraries to police barriers and rooms where Jews await transport to concentration camps. This powerful work of memory tragically captures a loss of innocence on both the most personal and historical stages. --Tom KeoghArt House & International VHS Video
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