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 l Postino (DVD)
Newest Review: ... sought better lives in America. Mario takes a job as a postman to Pablo Neruda, played by Phillipe Noiret (who was in Cinema ... more  ... Paradiso and Jean de Florette), the exiled poet who is stigmatised in South America for his political views. As Mario delivers letters to Neruda, a cautious friendship develops between the two, and Neruda's poetry awakens a poetic streak in the previously quite phlegmatic (well, for an italian!) postman. This story is played out in Mario's romance with the local publican's (or italian equivalent!)beautiful daughter, Beatrice. Of course, Neruda's politics, which played a great role in his exile, a...more |
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l Postino (DVD): A Mediterranean Postman (257 words)
by vhart - written on 07.11.00 (Very useful, 113 readings)
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Il Postino (The Postman) is a touchingly simple Italian film, which while bearing a classic theme, injects the telling with a poignant tenderness that makes even the reading of subtitles worth it! Set on a small island, off Sicily in the 1960s, it is the story of Mario, a shy, somewhat awkward fisherman's son whose siblings have all sought better lives in America. Mario takes a job as a postman to Pablo Neruda, played by Phillipe Noiret (who was in Cinema Paradiso and Jean de Florette), the exiled poet who is stigmatised in South America for his political views. As Mario delivers letters to Neruda, a cautious friendship develops between the two, ...
