Spend a Sunday afternoon with the 1990 Oscar winner for Best for Foreign Language film, and a ture love letter to the power of cinema, “Cinema Paradiso”.
Director Guiseppe Tornatore’s reflection of a Sicilian childhood spent at the movies is a beautiful, enchanting story of a young boy's lifelong love affair with the movies. Set in an Italian village, Salvatore finds himself enchanted by the flickering images at the Cinema Paradiso, yearning for the secret of the cinema's magic. When the projectionist, Alfredo, agrees to reveal the mysteries of moviemaking, a deep friendship is born. The day comes for Salvatore to leave the village and pursue his dream of making movies of his own. Thirty years later he receives a message that beckons him back home to a secret and beautiful discovery that awaits him.
Today, as we settle for streaming “content” at home, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of the magic of Dream Palaces and being taken away.