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      Hardboiled Egg

      1997 1h 40m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 81% 500+ Ratings Audience Score The life story of Piero, from childhood through his adult years as a father. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 03 Buy Now

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      Audience Member This 1997 Italian movie was the first film I caught on the third day of Cine Europa. It captured the awkwardness of growing up It has many charms, not the least of it was Regina Orioli's magnificent breasts. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Ovosodo [Italy, 1997] a vivid and circumspect approach on class distinction and nepotism. 7/10 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A funny comedy about the life of a normal adoloscent, that is becoming an adult, in a normal italian city. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A sincere inspection of a young boy's rite-of-passage of becoming a man (symbolically the film ends with his marriage and his child on the way of birth) under the backdrop of Italy from 1980s to 1990s, Wielding a passionate and rightful narrative to chronologically chart the young protagonist's adolescence and cleave to the historical sensibility of the mise-en-scène. From the highly rated Italian writer/director Paolo Virzì, HARDBOILED EGG is his third feature-length film, and it won Grand Special Jury Prize and Little Golden Lion awards in Venice Film Festival 1997, which was Virzì's steady stepping stone to send him as one of the most eminent contemporary Italian directors, although his repute is chiefly exclusive in his homeland. The film is sturdily underpinned by a brilliant script, in which everything is petty but can render us sincere evocations of everyone's own pubertal trajectory. Simultaneously the cast is precisely neck and neck to their characters, the average-looking Edoardo Gabbriellini is a comforting discovery as our cipher Piero (who had matured abruptly alluring and 12 years later he was at ease with performing Tilda Swinton's inamorato in IO SONO AMORE 2009), the notoriously non-talent Nicoletta Braschi (Mrs. Roberto Begnini) contributes a quite impressive enaction as the ill-fated teacher whose dismal life is both subtle and palpable. A sensual Marco Cocci, Piero's classmate from a filthy rich family, steals all the thunder whenever presented, which could also be interpreted as an allurement to test Piero's sexual preference. Also a pop-crammed soundtrack and a colorful palette also suit the theme. What the film lacks in an epiphanic moment which could escalate the feel-good consciousness into a more abiding esteem, still it is a wonderful finding for me and for the contemporary Italian film industry as well. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Ma l'hanno tradotto davvero così? :D Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member this is one of my favourite movies ever. story is touching and incredibly real and actual, actors are amazing (all of them) and dialogues funny and well written. it always makes me cry. The only thing, I don't how how a non-Italian person could watch and understand this movie, even with subtitles. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The life story of Piero, from childhood through his adult years as a father.
      Director
      Paolo Virzì
      Screenwriter
      Francesco Bruni, Furio Scarpelli, Paolo Virzì
      Production Co
      Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinema
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Runtime
      1h 40m
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