NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO

This movie was writter and directed in 1988 by Giuseppe Tornatore and it's one of the most beautiful italian movies. It won the Oscar Prize for the Best Foreign Movie. The first version lasts 173 minutes, one the second one, that was international, lasts 123 minutes: it's shorter but very exciting!
It's set in Sicily during the period after the Second World War and it talks about the first italian cinema, so it's both a historical and artistic movie. The special effects are really nice and we can see that, for example, in the scene where the cinema is burning: the flames seem so real! But the most emotionant scene, according to me, is that when the protagonist is leaving his town, his relatives and friends and one of them, the cinema's director tells him that he mustn't come back anymore and he must go on during his life! When I saw it I was just to cry... I could say it was simply exceptional! I think it's one of the biggest italian successes!