I’m totally ignorant about the blogosphere, so I’m probably not submitting this correctly, but here goes…

I left before the discussion began following Cinema Paradiso, and I asked Victor what I had missed. My feeling about the movie the second time around was totally different from when I first saw it quite a few years ago. This time the sentimentality did not appeal to me. It was a beautiful film, lovingly shot, and quite amusing, BUT Toto was a horrible little boy, a lovesick adolescent and nothing much as an adult. His walk down memory lane didn’t really move me. The only characters that were a bit more than caricatures were Alfredo and the mother. So I left feeling “so what?” Part of this could have been due to the uncomfortable chairs at the HOI and my miserable sinuses, but did anyone else share my feelings?

Karen