Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

jpschapira I read somewhere that "Remember Me" doesn't succeed at achieving everything it wants to be; this is false. This movie achieves everything it is with great professionalism and expertise. What is this? To show the turning point of the lives of several characters, and to make us understand that a turning point can arrive at any time of our lives. The characters in the film are 17, 19 and above forty years old. Of course, they are a family, but that doesn't change the unusual ages in which their turning point arrives.We are first introduced to Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Giulia (Laura Morante), the married couple, by a narration that sounds so accurate and charming it made me forget about the horrible narration used in "Perfume". This narration knows its time, and it appears only at the turning points of the film, which are not the same as 'the' turning point I mentioned above, and play more as twists…The movie has many of these, and the narration refers to them in the way Meredith Grey would in "Grey's Anatomy"; but somehow they sound right. In "Perfume", the narration was full of unnecessary comments during unnecessary moments.Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) and Paolo (Silvio Muccino) are also described by the soft narrated voice, and their descriptions are the work of a gifted writer; Gabriele Muccino. Unlike his script for "The Last Kiss", Muccino here collaborated with Heidrun Schleef, and they both show a sense of reality that these days is very difficult to achieve. All the changes they introduce to the screenplay, from beginning to end; we accept, because we believe their characters as soon as we see them.Muccino is also a gifted director, and through his words, he presents a story so beautiful and complex and painful that it will probably get tears out of your eyes. But "Remember Me" is no sermon; it's a true lesson of life and love, and Muccino tells it in a world of constant disappointment and frustration, of things forgotten and lost, but a world that also offers new opportunities and keeps the faith. There were times where I felt like watching "El hijo de la novia" again; where you were taken from sorrow to joy…Non-stop.This movie comes to Argentina now, after four years of being made and I think watching it once may not be enough. I think you should watch it five times and follow closely the development of a different character during each viewing. Because there's one character who also experiences a big change, and it's beautifully played by Monica Bellucci but that's all I say about it. So maybe after watching it five times, you can completely appreciate it.There are details in every character; details in every performance worth watching again. Laura Morante's character lies on a fine line between insanity and sense, and her performance (which made me think of a big friend, Dolores, and a possibility of her acting sooner or later) is fabulous because she's never too much of either; so she leaves no room for exaggeration in her portrayal and remains a palpable being. Bentivoglio's work is a way to see how a man can get rid all the rage he feels inside by doing what he really feels…The classic way of escaping the routine, that Silvio Muccino tenderly captures in a slightly different way. And Nicoletta Romanoff's character requires bravery to appear ridiculous…Her performance has courage to spare.Pieces like this one take romance and comedy and drama to a whole different level. Maybe "Remember Me" is the film that we need to see, so that it will generate a turning point in our lives and we'll never enter to the cinema to watch something like "No Reservations" again. Yes, that's a regular film; but beside this it's nothing.

B24 Soap opera enthusiasts will love this film. Each scene telegraphs what predictable nonsense will follow. The only element rising above such overwrought displays is generally apt use of camera and sound to capture an authentic flavor of life in a neurotic sort of middle-class Italian household, circa early twenty-first century.The plot is too obvious even to discuss in this forum. Others may do so, but I consider it an exercise analogous to a dog chasing its tail. Each main character is moreover annoying to the point of inviting frenzy as the only resolution to trying to understand what, exactly, each one is about. There is as well much shouting and physically running around, cell phones in hand.Watch it for its sets, its scenery, its depiction of contemporary Italy -- a cosmopolitan milieu eschewing travelogue vistas in favor of modern kitchens, television studios, and panoramic street scenes in residential neighborhoods.Providing, of course, that there is nothing better on the adjacent channel.

jotix100 "Remember my Name", directed by Gabriele Muccino, kept reminding this viewer about his previous film, "The Last Kiss", because in both, the main characters at the center of each story are named Carlo and Giulia. Could this 2003 has anything to do with the other one? Or was it just a coincidence? We don't get any actual fact to tie both movies together, but in a way, the two movies deal with an inner crisis that the two Carlos must face and come to terms with.This new film has a frenetic pace in the first hour. It seems as though Giulia and Carlo's relationship is strained, despite the somehow normal family life they lead. This is a film that asks a lot from its viewers, as they try to keep pace with the quick tempo Mr. Muccino gives the picture.It's clear to see that things aren't exactly the best between husband and wife. Carlo is at a point in his life where he can't deal with a job he doesn't care about and Giulia wants to go back to an acting career that didn't materialize when she married Carlo. Valentina, the young daughter, wants to pursue a career in television where beauty and a fast friends view her as a desired commodity. Paolo, the son, is an uncool youth who wants to belong in a world he is not cut out for.When the gorgeous Alissia enters the picture, Carlo can't resist seeing her again; they have been lovers before, but have lost track of each other in the succeeding years. Their relationship has a negative effect on both households, as Alissia is by now married, and Carlo loses his head when he decides to quit his job and renew his relationship with Alissia. When Carlo suffers a freak accident that sends him to the hospital for a long time, Giulia and the children rally to support him. In fact, this should be something to change Carlo's attitude in forgetting Alissia, but is it? We realize the accident and his gratitude to his wife and kids will be questioned again when we see him in the final moments of the film in the supermarket where he sees Alissia with her two young children as they make last minute Christmas preparations.Fabrizio Bentivoglio makes us care for the complex Carlo, a man whose passion has been dormant for a long time. Laura Morante, plays Giulia, the woman who has to make choices and wants to keep everyone together. Monica Belucci is seen as Alissia, the one that never stopped loving Carlo.The movie has a great look thanks to the camera work of Marcello Montarsi. The music by Paolo Buonvino is also an asset in the film. Gabriele Muccino, with this new movie proves to be an important voice in the Italian cinema today and we await for his new film with interest.

Roland E. Zwick There's a strange sort of paradox at work in "Remember Me, My Love," an Italian film that seems to be operating under some bizarre inverse law of quantum physics. For while the movie itself moves at a breakneck pace, hurtling from one scene to another with near-reckless abandon, we can't help noticing that the faster it goes, the slower it seems. Perhaps, we simply wear ourselves out trying to keep up with it and it is this exhaustion factor that ultimately accounts for our restlessness and ennui."Remember Me, My Love" focuses on a family of four, whose members haven't been getting along too well of late. The parents, Carlo and Giulia, are both trying to find ways to cope with a bad case of middle aged crisis: he, by rekindling a romance with a beautiful former flame, and she, by pursuing the career in acting she abandoned when she became a wife and mother. Their children, Valentina and Paolo, are typical adolescents, all caught up in rebellion, identity crises and complicated affairs of the heart.Although the film attempts to provide some insight into the complexities of modern family life, the characters come across as so whiny and self-indulgent that any sympathy they might have engendered on the part of the audience quickly turns to indifference and even irritation. The actors do their best (particularly Laura Morante as Giulia), but the characters they are called on to play never engage us much beyond the surface level. This lack of depth is further compounded by the whirlwind nature of the storytelling, which rarely allows the actors the time they need to settle down and work out the subtle nuances of their roles.In all fairness, I must admit that, in the second hour, the film improves considerably, trafficking in some genuinely raw emotions that exemplify the devastating effects that a disintegrating marriage can have on all members of a family. Moreover, the film ends on a courageously inconclusive note, which goes a long way towards mitigating some of the theatricality and artificiality that permeate the rest of the movie.Taken as a whole, "Remember Me, My Love" turns out to be much less than the sum of its parts, but the performances and a few good scenes do make it palatable.