Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Movie: "REMEMBER ME, MY LOVE" in Theatres September 3rd!
The ANNOTICO Report
Thanks to Tony DeNonno

Only those in New York (9/3), and Los Angeles(9/10) will be able to see it Now.
But keep your eye open for it coming to your City.

REMEMBER ME, MY LOVE premiered at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival and screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. It was nominated for 10 Donatello Awards (Italy’s Oscar) and was one of Italy’s most successful films in 2003.
 

REMEMBER ME, MY LOVE (Italy/France/Great Britain) Muccino’s bittersweet drama delves into the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile unit.   As their children come of age and begin to follow their own dreams, Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) finds himself torn between a passionate affair with Alessia (Monica Bellucci) and his wife Guilia (Laura Morante), while Guilia must face her own buried desires.

REVIEWS

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/
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In post-fascist, post-socialist, post-communist Italy, where the people have no sense of being, the Ristuccia family wavers on the brink of pointlessness. Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), finding his career success meaningless, rekindles an affair with an old love and quits his job to finish a long-abandoned novel. His wife Giulia (Laura Morante), feeling herself unappreciated and going to waste, auditions for a play and falls in love with the gay director. An accident makes both realize that, although they have castrated each other through marriage, the family need not be a sexual unit to have value. Meanwhile their son Paulo, an anonymous left-wing loser, tries to distinguish himself as a dope-smoking party monster, and daughter Valentina sleeps her way to a job as a dancer on a tacky TV show. In modern Italy, the young want to do everything, while the old are without ambition. The cast is terrific, especially Morante, who looks like a cross between Isabella Rosselini and Juliette Binoche. Director Gabriele Muccino's portrait of a family in crisis succeeds brilliantly as a metaphor for 21st century Italy. (Bill White - Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Grade: A

MOVIELINE'S HOLLYWOOD LIFE Gabriele Muccino, the director of the seductive Italian drama The Last Kiss, scores again with this wry, wise tale of a family in crisis...Two alluring actresses from different generations--Laura Morante and Monica Bellucci--dominate the movie, but all of the actors succeed in illuminating characters trying to navigate the pangs of first and last loves." -Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life

FILM JOURNALHigh-energy direction and near-farcical approach.   Muccino has once again taken serious material and injected it with commercial potency. Morante is always compelling to watch. REMEMBER ME, MY LOVE is stylish art-house entertainment! Beware the reflection you may see in this comically dysfunctional family portrait. - Kevin Lally, Film Journal

OPENING DATES  (Limited Engagement)

Sept. 3   NY
The Paris Theatre
Landmark's Sunshine Cinema

Sept. 10  LOS ANGELES
Laemmle Monica 4-plex (Santa Monica)
Laemmle Music Hall (Beverl Hills)Laemmle Playhouse 7 (Pasadena)
Laemmle Town Center 5 (Encino)UA Marketplace 6 (Long Beach)

Oct. 30  SCOTTSDALE, AZ Hark Camelview Plaza 1

Visit the website to watch the trailer :
Remember Me, My Love - Official Movie Website
http://www.remembermemylove.com