Cosi (1996)

Cosi: Directed by Mark Joffe. With Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths. Lewis is a young Sydney amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution for mentally ill. His project is overrun by one of the patients Roy who wants to put on stage Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart). None of the patients in the cast is able to sing and none of them knows Italian which is the language of the libretto. Through a lot of difficulties Lewis and his cast develop a deep understanding. The play smartly adapted for the unusual cast is finally produced: lots of unforeseen situations solved ‘a la crazy way’but indeed brilliantly. Great success and sad farewell of the director from his cast.

“Mark Joffe is a not so known director but the kind of director who happens to make movies you canu0026#39;t help falling in love with. Forget all the sentimentality that is given by Oscarblockbusters or the usual crap with Hugh Grant as this is where the heart beats. Itu0026#39;s a simple human story in where there is place for tears and laughter, itu0026#39;s about some psychiatric patients who have decided to make their own operaversion of Mozartu0026#39;s u0026quot;Cosiu0026quot;. It are the little things in life that deserve attention and thatu0026#39;s what Joffe is showing us, and the real star in u0026quot;Cosiu0026quot; is as said before Toni Collette, simply wonderful what the star of u0026quot;Murielu0026#39;s weddingu0026quot; is doing here.”