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Cinema Paradiso
The one who believed in you most might be the one who told you to leave.
Who it's for
Cinema Paradiso follows a friendship between a boy and a projectionist across decades, then brings the grown man home for the funeral.
Sad→Released (Catharsis)
Feelings it meets
What it is
Giuseppe Tornatore's film begins in 1988, when Rome film director Salvatore Di Vita learns that Alfredo, the projectionist from his Sicilian home village, has died. Through flashbacks it follows Salvatore's childhood friendship with Alfredo at the village cinema, his teenage first love, and Alfredo urging him to leave and pursue his dreams.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Deaths of a father and a mentor.
Age: PG (US release)
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
