Fresh
There's plenty here to delight cinephiles.
Janice Page, Boston Globe
Overview
The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
So taken with its own love of cinema, it forgets to lead you down the necessary dramaturgical path to make you fall in love, too.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
A movie that longs for a return to a cinema that, rather than marketing, merchandise and corporate synergy, is about the mysteries that flicker to life after the lights go down.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
It has a droll sensibility but is marred by dirge-like pacing.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
This impassioned yet somewhat too precious fable from writer-director Davide Ferrario feels calculated to make a cineaste swoon, and yet . . . it never quite does.
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly
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