The Way We Laughed

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 20, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1998
  • Label: New Yorker Video

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User Ratings: 444
This is the kind of European film you rarely see anymore, with characters and circumstances that are easily debatable. Two viewers may never reach the same conclusion about the film.
Miami Herald
Feb 8, 2002
...Gorgeously atmospheric....[This] movie has the sweep, color and passion of a period piece...
New York Times
Nov 21, 2001
Rating: 5/5 -- To watch Gianni Amelio's luminous The Way We Laughed is to reconnect with Italian cinema in all its richness of emotion and command of expressive gesture. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Aug 15, 2002
Rating: A- -- An unusual, tremendously moving film that nicely assumes we can read between the pictures. Full Review
Oregonian
May 24, 2002
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
New Times
Feb 7, 2002
Rating: 4/4 -- ... a masterpiece about filial love and the horrors of poverty.
Chicago Tribune
Mar 21, 2002
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A haunting, richly textured film that, like the Italian director's unforgettable Lamerica, dramatizes the plight of poverty on an epic scale. Full Review
Boston Globe
Jun 14, 2002

Product Description:

A working class illiterate, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), takes in his younger brother Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida). Sicilians displaced in late 1950s Turin, Italy, they struggle to get by with Giovanni working odd jobs while he pressures Pietro to keep with his studies. An economic shift in Italy sends the two brothers along decidedly different paths. The moralistic Giovanni finds himself profiting from the boom through ill-gotten gains while the irresponsible Pietro sticks with his schooling and becomes a respected teacher. Their roles now completely reversed, Pietro proves himself a responsible adult by covering for the corrupt actions of his brother.

Writer-director Gianni Amelio (L'AMERICA) presents this six-part saga about the economic influence on family roles and values. Each part is titled with a one-word theme such as "Blood" or "Money." These sections comprise one day in each of the story's six years, using subtleties of character and plot to relate the account of the two brothers. A work rich in emotion, THE WAY WE LAUGHED deftly weaves the tales of individuals, family, and a nation into one cohesive narrative.

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  • Sales Rank: 111,904
  • UPC: 717119792343
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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