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Rated: PG; Length: 108 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language, Romance; With: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Philippe Noiret and Massimo Troisi
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

What gives this gentle film its fresh taste is the felicitous collaboration of British director Michael Radford, Frenchman Philippe Noiret, and Italian actor-comedian Massimo Troisi, who died of heart disease at 41, the day after shooting wrapped. Troisi plays Mario, a shy, mumbling man on an Italian island who finds work delivering mail to famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Noiret). Curious, open, and admiring, Mario wins Neruda over, and the two become friends. Radford distinguishes soulfulness from pathos; he aerates this story with humor and doesn't condescend to sentimentalism.


Posted Aug 04, 1995
 

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