New out this week, Il grande sogno, the new film from Michele Placido, whose Romanzo criminale was one of the better Italo-crime films of recent years. This sounds like a slightly less interesting production, being another in the line of movies set around the student protests of the late 60s (such as Bertolucci’s The Dreamers).
According to Variety:
Michele Placido’s “Il grande sogno,” a semi-autobiographical ’68 student-protest movie with Riccardo Scamarcio in the Louis Garrel role, lacks the strong stamp of either Bertolucci or Garrel pere. Instead, it turns the idealistic youngers’ call for radical change into a safely middlebrow, intermittently involving meller that impresses most in the sections furthest from Placido’s own experience. Less accomplished than “Crime Novel,” his previous take on recent Italo history, this pricey historical re-creation with a sexy young cast should nonetheless do OK biz locally and raise a few placards in other Euro territories (continues).
Well, this has been doing very well over its opening weekend, netting just over a million euros. But I can’t say that the plot of it fills me with excitement.