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Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Enrico Lo Verso, Giuseppe Ieracitano and Valentina Scalici
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
STOLEN CHILDREN (Unrated) Set in contemporary Italy, this stoic and absorbing new movie centers on an 11-year-old girl, Rosetta (Valentina Scalici), whose mother has been employing her as a prostitute since she was 9. The director, Gianni Amelio, refuses to cry out in horror at this atrocity; he knows he doesn't have to. Instead, he takes Rosetta and her 9-year-old brother (Giuseppe Ieracitano) on a quiet odyssey of redemption. The children are dispatched to an orphanage in Sicily with a young carabiniere (Enrico Lo Verso) as their guide. As they drift through random urban locales, Amelio lets the movie unfold almost entirely through the faces of his actors. B
Posted Apr 30, 1993
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