Saturday, 22 December 2012

A modern fairy tale (..yawn!)

The Italian Key 2011
This film is now being screened in KL in conjunction with EU film festival. Well, it not my idea of a good movie. It may excite teenage female viewers who find joy in the likes of 'Mills and Boones' paperbacks or the 'Twilight Saga' where everyone is good looking and has unblemished facial skin! It has on its vitae a string of accolades, all from unknown festival and areas unrelated to story and acting, e.g. 'feel good' movie and music. I would agree that the view of the Italian country-side is simply breathtaking. The story and acting, however, is much to be desired.
The heroine of the story is a 19 year old orphan who grew up in the UK with her guardian Max and his two evil daughters (hey, sounds like Cinderella!). When Max dies, she inherits a key which brings her to a small village in Italy named just like hers, Capella.
After some research, she found that the key opens a castle. The mysterious village brings to her acquaintance 4 girlfriends (Flora, Julia, Maria and Sophia), a mute shop assistant, an Indian royalty, his paraplegic friend and girls desperate to be in love.
Along the way, in the house that Capella is staying, a young ghost appears to help her find her parents. With the help of her mother's diary written in Italian, she discovers that her mother was a nun who got pregnant while on charity work in India.
The story of Capella's mother, the nun, is told in instalments. It is quite scandalous to watch a nun walking around the village paths of India  with floral modern cut dresses which accentuate the God given body curvatures. There is a tussle of love between 2 gentlemen where Max, the guardian is the gentle loser who takes care of Capella when the father leaves India after a one night stand and the mother died when  Capella was 3. Capella's father did not know of the seed that he sowed until the end of the movie. At the end of the day, Capella finds love and her father while all her girlfriends too found their partners!
A very confused global movie produced by the Finnish, shot in UK, Italy and India to be spoken in English.

1 comment:

  1. You did not fall asleep? teenage stuff....

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