Cinema Paradiso

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -800

Friday night's activity was going over to a MiPLer's house to see Cinema
Paradiso, a movie that was mourning the death of the old-style movie house.
The story follows the (flashback) story of a man who has come home to mourn the
passing of an old friend who ran the movie house in the town in which he grew
up. The movie itself was quite quirky, with many moments of understated mirth
and humor--at one point, the protagonist is trying to teach his friend that
5 x 5 = 25 by showing him a picture of "25"--Christmas. Unfortunately, his
friend memorizes it as 5 x 5 = Christmas! In any case, the cinematography of
the movie was quite beautiful--there were several wide shots of the inside of
the theatre, the square outside, and the village idiot. I enjoyed the movie
quite a bit.