A group of boys is found as every Saturday night in the house of one of them, Elisa, in the extreme outskirts of their city. Are friends for some time and are systematically there to drink, talk, joke trying to forget that they are becoming larger. Enrico is back by three months at home and had already met him again friends always in a foggy winter Saturday night, trying to understand what had changed in his absence. Theirs is a suburbs far from the city center, a place that until a few decades before it was called campaign and instead now industrialization without rules has turned into something not identifiable. There Gianluca, an independent guy who loves to do all on her own and lives with her family, owners of a workshop mechanics. It is engaged to Cinzia, the daughter of the local farmers. You would want to be treated differently and especially would like to be happen, but does not know how to talk. David's family had close the grocery store after the opening of a hypermarket and now looking for a way to escape poverty, but the greatest concern of the child is to be able to lose your virginity. Alessandro has forty years, and to please his father, a ex-partisan, he married Mary, the teacher of the town, with which brings forward wearily a lukewarm relationship full of problems and questions. His wife, impatient, dreams of a different life and you go to fall in love with their indolent Gianluca. Elisa, however, fears this to be over and that everyone take up his road disappearing the lives of others. In three Saturdays of their lives is consumed end of their teenage years, they come out the flaws, the regrets, the perplexity, anger. Three Saturdays in which each of them will try to find their own way and think to stop waiting though, living in a country, their story will become public domain and will be subject of talk in front of countless glasses of wine
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giovannirossim18 October 2005Finally an Italian movie, that's actually fun to watch!!! No over-acting, no troubled soul character.... This movie is about a group of friends from a small village in Italy. It's a warm, and intimate movie. The kind of movie you wanna see over and over. Sort of like the 'breakfast Club'(if you where a teen in the 80's i mean). The main story is about a guy from the group who falls in love with his brothers school teacher. But don't worry it's not cheesy, and it doesn't play on cheap emotions. That's the main story. But in the background you finally have colourful character: like a guy who only talks burping, a guy who wants to get la*d, the Mexican headed by PAco, who always has a beer in hand, etc... The cool thing about this movie is that it's original in the sense, that it goes away from the normal 'small town movie' clichés such as 'I wanna get outta here, leave this town'. The characters are in union with the place, and they are really funny. Even though the storyline is one. So many things happen in the background, that am sure I missed some jokes. It's the kind of movie, I can't wait till it comes out in DVD, to watch in my couch having some beers. BTW Since this is my first posting, lemme just say that movies like 'L'ulimto Bacio' i don't like, it's the typical Italian movie, Italians fell forced to watch, full of voer-.acting. Movies I like are almost all of 'Salvatores'... And I also like porno's, but that's another story
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rasecz31 March 2006A confused mess, especially the first half. A multitude of characters poorly fleshed out adds to the confusion. The height of sophistication is a character that burps city names and other words. (Fifteen minutes into the film and the inanity was too much for many in the audience. I also thought of leaving.) In the second half, a scrappy story finally emerges and a little bit of sense is brought back to the opening scenes. The only saving grace for this chaotic film is good music and competent camera work. The best way to see this film, if one insists in doing so, is to skip the first hour. Enduring the first sixty minutes puts one in a foul mood.
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dittatorrichard14 October 2005Usually i don't go to see Italian movies because they're usually rubbish. But this time happened that my father Was invited to a kind of premiere in my town(lots of the scenes were filmed near my town as for some of the actor are from my town) i it was for free... so I went...although some interesting features of the directing, the story is terrible, not even believable, tragic and sad beyond any possible real situation (as for all the Italian films) a group of friend that are all jinxed. The script is empty and at the end of the film you get the feeling that nothing really happened...and you say: "and then?..." It's a film without message except that you feel very very lucky not being one of those characters!
The only positive features is that most of the actors are not professional actors, and some not even amateurs actors...
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Texas is a vivid movie and I personally really liked it: acting is fresh rhythm is high, and the direction is interesting.
The movie is about the life in suburb little town of the rich, "great" but foggy north.
A bunch of guys try to escape the day-by-day boredom but each in a different way: there is who engage himself trying to accomplish the record of longest burp, who try to revenge his life through his work, who through her love life. Somebody escape to her marriage and somebody just escape by moving out.
The greatness of this movie lies in the introspection of each single character, even the secondary ones, by showing their passions, their tics, their fears, how they like or dislike each other. What they envy and what they hate.
Texas is not an easy movie though, the plot is complex and the rhythm is high, so if you miss some details you may miss some hidden cool sides of the movie, or end up thinking that nothing is happened.
If you're a Hollywood lover you'll probably dislike Texas, but if you think a movie is something more than flying bullets and noisy explosion, give this movie a shot. -
One review I read stated that "at the end of the film you get the feeling that nothing really happened...and you say: 'and then?'" That's interesting, because at the end of the film, my wife and I were both deeply moved by the apparent nothing that happened. The director had done a very good job in building up our conventional expectations, and the resolution he offered was exquisite, unexpected and banal, all at once. So, maybe "nothing happened" in the Hollywood sense but it made sense to us. And the "and then?" part occurred to me too, but not until the next morning, and it deepened by appreciation of the film (turned out that was the key question). "Texas" seems a bit too frenetic at times, but it was a memorable film.
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KLUTE19 April 2006Texas is a startlingly amazing movie that resonates with life in the many small towns in today's United States--especially the restlessness yet simultaneous complacency! The director is an impressive storyteller. I highly recommend this terrific film. The acting is uniformly excellent--including the director himself and 2 of the screenwriters. This film deserves to get a release in America and hopefully will soon.
By the way, anyone who can't endure the first 60 minutes should stick to seeing the Hollywood paint-by-numbers crap that is coming out and leave innovative, exciting cinema to those who can appreciate it.