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Film · Italy · 1913

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Ma l'amor mio non muore

28Leave it.

The love is a pose, and Borelli's gestures are the thing they sold.

Take controlThis scores 28. Ma l'amor mio non muore cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Lyda Borelli is the reason this Italian picture still gets named. A singer and a doomed romance. The gestures are the product. A house can watch it. I sat through the poses waiting for a life to show up under them. The love is a pose as much as a life. It was not an American gross, and I won't invent a last speech to make the end feel finished.

What I have left is the gesture. That's the sell, and it is very good at being one. I wouldn't put it on for the kids as a lesson in keeping a promise. Nothing in the frame asks the romance to survive. It asks you to watch her carry it.

Journal

Keep Ma l'amor mio non muore in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Practical Magic 2

40 instead of 28

Practical Magic 2 is still a romance film, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is household: Sisters remain the promise.

The eight

5
Industry
A singer's gestures are the product, not a job that keeps a house.
3
Household
The romance is doomed, and the love stays a pose as much as a life.
2
Piety
No conscience in the frame asks the doomed romance to stop.
3
Courage
What she risks is a doomed romance, carried as a pose.
2
Republic
An Italian diva picture, and no town is owed a thing.
2
Temperance
The gestures train you toward the next pose, not a quieter life.
3
Truth
The love is a pose as much as a life, with no last speech supplied.
2
Stewardship
After the romance, what remains is the gesture, not a household.

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Film · DreamWorks · 1999

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American Beauty

28Leave it.

The household is rotting, and the picture is too pleased to watch. Adults. Not a liberation.

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The review

The film is right that a house can become a catalog and a silence. It is wrong about the cure. A man chasing a feeling, and a plastic bag offered as transcendence, is not a repair. A daughter lives in the house while the film calls his restlessness honesty.

Adults. If you saw it in its year and called it brave, look again at who the bravery costs. The table was the place to begin. He begins with himself and calls it beauty.

Journal

Keep American Beauty in the record.