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The Garden of the Finzi:Continis

Dominique Sanda (Actor), Lino Capolicchio (Actor), Vittorio De Sica (Director) | Format: DVD
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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 Keogh

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5.0 out of 5 stars Have Mercy on my Pocketbook Jan 8 2013
By Johnny Darkelly
Format:DVD
I love this film. I saw it when it came out and instantly fell in love with Dominique Sanda. I own the soundtrack on vinyl. I would love to own this film as well and add it to my seventies foreign film section next to 1900 (I also own this soundtrack on vinyl) Love and Anarchy, Seven Beauties and others. WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE? Do my children have to go hungry so that I can enjoy foreign films? Please bring this price down.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Politics of World War II Italy Oct 20 2003
By "johntchance"
Format:DVD
This movie introduced to me a brand new character, the Jewish Italian hot blonde girl. Since she is also named Finzi Contini and the object of our hero's desire it couldn't have been a better idea. But it's not just an unrequited love film, but a movie set during World War II. An American film such as this would spend a great deal of time reminding you how horrible the Nazis were, but instead we get the nuance points of views like the anti-fascist handsome man that blonde Finzi Contini thinks is too Communist. We also get the fascist Hero of father that thinks that Italian fascism is superior to Nazism and will solve the world's problems. These kinds of perspectives are ignored in American film or marginalized, when we all know they existed during this time period.

I don't have to tell you what is going to happen in a film about Jewish Heroes when the Nazis are coming, you already know. Our hero loses his girl to the communist and then eventually to the holocaust. It would certainly register as one of the biggest coming of age bummers, and yet it didn't ruin the film. It somehow gave these lives even more importance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Film, Great Director, Great Cast, Great Story Sep 23 2003
By Bruce Kendall
Format:DVD
Thank you Independent Film Channel for sending this one along just when I most needed a palate cleanser after suffering through CENTRAL STATION. It served as the perfect antidote to that bit of system churning mess. If you want to see a director in action who can actually get performers to "put out," and actually act their ###es off, try queueing this one up in your DVD player some evening.

Dominique Sanda earned her reputation off this film. She is the quintissentially complex heroine of the piece. Is she frigid, incestous, frightened, unable to love, passive-aggressive, or something else? We'll never know, but we will always wonder, thanks to fine script-writing, acting and directing. This is old school De Sica surehandedness at play in the fields of the lord here. Rent or buy this. It will never grow old, as it is a true classic.

BEK

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Haunting Tale of Lost Love and Liberty
This movie is just so beautifully done. It is not a hard or complicated plot to grasp but it is filmed with such, emotion. Read more
Published on July 31 2002 by L. J Nary
3.0 out of 5 stars A BITTERSWEET AND TRAGIC COMING OF AGE FILM...
This film, which won an Academy Award for best Foreign Language Picture in 1971, is set in Ferrara, Italy. Read more
Published on July 19 2002 by Lawyeraau
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Foreign Film 1970
What makes the film so memorable is its almost dreamlike atmosphere. The Finzi-Contini's garden is a many acred forest replete with wooded paths and tennis court where time seems... Read more
Published on Jan 9 2002 by Doug Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and emotional
I love this film because of its mood, it's done in a true De Sica tradition, so even while it deals with a terrible subject of human extermination, it does profess the idea of... Read more
Published on Nov 7 2001 by Anna Shlimovich
2.0 out of 5 stars Why is this so great?
It is politically correct, perhaps, to call any work dealing with the Holocaust great just because it deals with the subject, maybe because one fears the charge of anti-Semitism. Read more
Published on Oct 15 2001 by R. Josef
5.0 out of 5 stars Still a favorite thirty years on ....
They say you can't go back, but sometimes maybe you can. I first saw this in college around thirty years ago, and was knocked out by it's elegaic qualities and the power of the... Read more
Published on Aug 13 2001 by Ian Rowlands
4.0 out of 5 stars After 30 years, it's still a remarkable film
I saw this film in its initial release in the early 70s, when there were lots of outstanding, intelligent, and personal films around. Read more
Published on Aug 4 2001 by Don Luther
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and Beautiful
This is a fascinating and haunting movie. Honestly not very much happens in it: some very very beautiful doomed people fail to notice the walls they have built around themselves... Read more
Published on July 14 2001 by Ian S. Horst
4.0 out of 5 stars Imperfect, but unforgettable
In this haunting work by Vittoria De Sica an aristocratic Italian-Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, serve as a symbol of European civilization in the hands of the brown shirts on... Read more
Published on May 12 2001 by Dennis Littrell
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look at Mussolini's Italy & Jewish History in it
I think this is not one of De Sica's best films, but it is a good one, nonetheless... The subject matter is vital to a modern viewer (Italian part of Jewish Holocaust History), but... Read more
Published on May 10 2000 by "zara_azari"
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