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Nov 26, 2014garycornell rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Giuseppe Tornatore is a famous Italian film director of "Cinema Paradiso". The story takes place in a small Italian village. A small boy likes to go to the Cinema Paradisco to help the projectionist while the film is running. He learns to love movies and we watch him grow to a man. The story is touching and has a musical soundtrack that makes the images all the more real. In fact, you might be so taken away with the film that you think you smell the popcorn from the snack bar. (Actually there is no snack bar in the movie). The director was trying to tell us why he feel in love with movies and along the way we fall in love with his "Cinema Paradiso". One of Italy's finest films and truly essential viewing if you enjoy foreign films. P.S. I agree with the others who commented the shorter version of the movie is the only one of the discs to watch.