Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Claudio Carvalho In the 20's, in the backward Sicialian town of Bagheria (a.k.a. Baaria), the boy Giuseppe "Peppino" Torrenuova (Francesco Scianna) works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Along the years, he grows up and joins the Communist Party. He marries the local Mannina (Margareth Madè); they have children; and he follows a political career. ... "Baaria" is as boring film where the writer and director Giuseppe Tornatore unsuccessfully uses the same formula of his masterpiece "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" but that never works. The screenplay excessively uses ellipsis making difficult to follow secondary characters. The story is very uninteresting and too personal and does not have emotion. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Baaria – A Porta do Vento" ("Baaria – The Door of the Wind")

Nikos7 I just saw it tonight and I found it unbelievably superficial and pseudo-artistic (or "superficially artistic" if you want). It seems like he couldn't stop "talking" and bringing in new themes and subplots into the movie, to the point that there was no point at the end! Just an endless blah-blah-blah-blah-blah! It was as if Tornatore was afraid this would be his last movie ever, so he had to tell us everything that's ever crossed his mind... Even the music seemed totally contrived to me. Trying to impress and move the audience at every single, boring, supposedly moving, scene. Tolerable for the artistic features (cinematography, scenery, costumes, etc.) but other than that long-winded and babbling. I would definitely not propose it.P.S. Oh, and Monica Bellucci's breasts make a cameo appearance for something like 10 seconds. How can you treat your actors like that? (And why did she have to accept this... "role"?)

kolo-5 "Baaria" is definitely a movie to be seen. It's not Jet Lee. It's not Brangelina. It's a movie, not fast food. Tornatore has put all his nostalgia and memories in it. There is a lot to explore and to understand. The movie is full of interesting characters, there is a little magic too, with the old woman that appears just in pasta time. What we see is not the saga of a boy, but the saga of a whole country. Its run-time is more than the usual, 163 minutes, but once you get in the movie you won't mind unless you have Big Brother to watch at home. There is a bit of "Cinema Paradiso" in Baaria, there are bits that remind you of "The Starmaker" there is something of "Malena" too. But Baaria stands of itself. If you like Tornatore, this movie is not gonna let you down.

sognio Baaria is a good film. Let me get that out of the way first. It is however a bit disjointed, it feels like your watching a story your parents might tell you about there childhood and growing up. Snap shots, highlights only. And for this reason we never really get to know the characters or stories before it fades to black and on to the next chapter in the history of Peppino and his family.Apart from this i did enjoy it. It's typical Tornatore. In fact It's Cinema Paradiso, Malena, Star Maker and something new all in the one film.You can see why it is rumoured to be the most expensive Italian film of all time. The sets are impressive (most of what you see are sets and they're top class) the camera work is expensive looking, the extras vast. It's a BIG film.It is my opinion that Tornatore made this film with Leningrad (his English language long in development project about the second world war in Russia) in mind. He wants to make it with big money. For him to get it he needs to show he can deliver the goods when it come to big 'Hollywood' movies. Most of us Tornatore fans know he can Direct small intimate stories, with Baaria he has shown he can do expansive more complex shoots. If he's going to get that money for Leningrad i think he just needs to show he can do action. I suspect his next film might feature more action for just this reason. Then it's off to Hollywood Beppe.