Mythical Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles (the hotel where John Belushi died, which was home to James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Morrison, Garbo). E'proprio where life takes place of many stars, in rooms not luxurious, the perfect hiding places for solitude, and impermanence. Among them the main character: Johnny Marco, "sex, drugs and lap dance at home to sleep," his motto. A shiny black Ferrari, which often idles, chasing some blonde and then the voice of a woman, her voice, which wakes him from his long torpor to remind him what to do, what to say and where to go, but despite this he does and does not say, but all around him are so happy. Cleo, his daughter, ciricolo break this vicious, with her smile will bring life, warmth, light, emotion above all.
Many, and perhaps too many in fact, the preamble as a frame to the only event that matters and is told: the meeting between father and daughter , rocked by scenes in diving, diving, swimming, taking on board the sun ( Are you okay? asks at one point, breaking silence at last eloquence) beautiful eyes of Him who look ecstatic, really charming you (the most beautiful scenes, delicate and it is these very elegant. Everything, in fact, is voluntarily resigned, in order to give prominence to these outbursts of feeling, like a relay race, everyone runs to pass the baton to her: the lovely Cleo)
It is not difficult to realize that this is the personal history author, screenwriter and director: too much magic in the looks between father and daughter, too much prudence in reconstructing the details. Silence, delay, same gestures, monotony exhausted, but they always stop a little before and tired of all this already Coppola announces in the opening scene, summary of the style that we wrap in plastic wrap in full. The camera still, in fact, fits a dusty corner of a mini circuit, you hear the roar of a powerful Ferrari passing four or five times before slowing down: a symptom of that malaise will be unconscious film.In the narrator of this slow vortex, Sofia, daughter of a wrong marriage, dancing and speaks with his father, much of the film is almost silent, you avoid saying a word. Then the ex-wife mysteriously disappears for a while 'before the movie and change, become more hectic but full of meaning, a meaning that make you feel useless and Johnny which led him to change his life. Somewhere is a title fits perfectly, all are not those places where the characters move hotels, corridors, a somewhere that underlines the good sense of not belonging, the only vacuum that Cleo will be able to fill.
A critical eye on Italian television and in flight, when Johnny is in Italy to withdraw Telegatto: Nino Frassica, Valeria Marini, Simona Ventura testify once again to foreign eyes the trash and vulgarity that both sets us apart. Sofia escapes from the luxury hotel in Milan from fake smiles from Frassica not even guesses the name of the winners and his coconduttrice from balleltti with tits and ass worthy of the best wind Bagaglino and run, I believe, a clear message. And the mysterious
SMS and addressed him as "asshole"? And his obsession of always being chased by someone? I waited until the end of a po'dipiù understand, but in vain. Not a masterpiece, this fourth film of Coppola, but very elegant, very French New Wave. Cleo significant, fall in love, capture the attention and I too have suffered as a Johnny-when-its absence leaves the stage, leaving for the summer camp, the noise of the helicopter covering the words of the father who wants to be there from now on then in the life of her daughter, she greets him, perhaps he meant the message nonetheless. But then the film is all qui.Gradevole, but that's all.
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