Everybody's Fine (1990)

Everybody's Fine (1990). 1h 58m | PG-13

“This is an artistu0026#39;s dream of film making: a beautiful and visual treat with stunning – Fellini like – images and imagination. Itu0026#39;s comical as well, with Marcello Mastroianni enjoying his role and looking funny, wearing a big, floppy, flower-pot-hat with rim – and overcoat: and profiling a bushy- white moustache; and large, black rimmed glasses with bottle-top lenses. Marcello Mastroianni: delightful- uniquely, and acting in remarkable and emotional style ( – and worthy to compare to Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati. )u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film score by Ennio Morricone is electrifying , and inspired, and greatly enhancing the filmu0026#39;s quality. ( Anyone could be forgiven by mistaking the cinematic score to be written by Nino Rota? ) Guiseppe Tornatore as film director -in one scene, there feels a striking reference to u0026#39;Cinema Paradisou0026#39; with child actor, Salvatore Cascio -in a misty, blue- hazed vision of the past – very touching? There are images to savour forever – perhaps Salvador Dali influenced?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026#39;…..The basic plot is that Marcello Mastroianni, as a widower, travels to mainland Italy to re-unite his u0026#39;childrenu0026#39; together on a surprise visit during summer vacation. The family collude, and they endeavour to conceal their lack of success – both in their own personal, and profession lives….u0026#39;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI watched the film in a London cinema 29 years ago, and went back the following week to watch the film again with my wife to be; I still thoroughly enjoyed my viewing again….that the experience and genius of the art work of the moving image- ( that ) the film conveys….u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCinematography by Blasco Giurato. The film matures and ripens with age, as we age in sentimental nostalgia. The film captures romantic sentiment and sadness in a heart of nostalgia ……as the film ends- as the train of the journey arrives home to Sicily – there seems to be a carriage missing from the original train that started our journey…. In thought: a sense, a loss, one of sadness, and one of longing….. Stanno Tutti Bene!”