Dark Eyes

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Scott R @ScottR Mar 4 NYT 1000 films. A focus on a love obsession. From a prominent Italian man who married into money who follows his love fling to rural Russia, only to be left to a tragic, ironic ending. Saw on box. See more L H @RT83753464 09/23/2024 This movie contains most things! The film contains a lot of humor. But in humor it is also serious. It can make you both laugh and cry. It can be interpreted as a man's inadequacy, and that you do not grab the chance when you have it. A random meeting between two men on each side of the happiness scale. It's fun and sad. Great actors. Great scenes and music. A joy of a movie that is one of the best films that has been preserved in my memory almost 40 years. See more 09/27/2020 More important now than it was in 1987. I find it interesting, and saddening, how the American field of critics reviewed and parsed the film so naively, so "missed-the-point". In 2020, as an American citizen, art historian, and widow of an Italian creative who flourished in the 60s to 90s, I must say that the way this film was countenanced in such a fly-by disconnect way, a total missed-the-whole-point way, and was misconstrued as something about "love" or "lost love", portends for me, the miasma the American mind (if there is such a thing, really) has submersed itself in. A brilliant film that genuinely reflects: the human condition; the flow of human life through all of its "isms" and "isn'ts"; the ambiguity of everything we experience and intend; and the indelible nuances that still hold sway as the irrevocable DNA of Russian and Italian culture. That DNA thrives in these cultures, as it does in the hearts of humans squirming up through the layers of any and every culture they emerge from. All cultural perspectives have validity, and they all inform the hearts and hopes and biases and stances and priorities of the people who have been steeped in them from birth, youth, and other critical times of life. So be it. See more steve d @RT35616104 07/12/2020 I normally like Chekhov but thought this dragged. See more 09/14/2016 7.8/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2Al See more 06/20/2011 A great love story, with phenomenal acting and impressive cinematography. See more Read all reviews

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