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Title: Endless love, Italian style . . .
Review: This bitter-sweet love story is like a folk tale from another era - at least a century before the 1920s in which it is set. A 35-year-old tailor's son, played superbly by Neri Marcorè, with a modest innocence almost never associated with Italian men, is sent from Rome to Bologna to take a job as a classics teacher and to find a wife. There he meets and falls hopelessly in love, for the first time in his life, with a self-absorbed society girl, who happens to be blind - and in love with another man. Their relationship is both painful and poignant - played out at an almost dreamy pace against the more comic sexual antics of the supporting characters. Veteran actor Giancarlo Giannini, as the father, provides a comic energy of his own. As tailor to the Pope, he represents a vocation that has to my knowledge never been seen in a film before. The photography is lovely and the music rapturous. Be prepared for a lump in your throat in the final scene.
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