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Colpo d'occhio (2008) is a Italian movie. Sergio Rubini has directed this movie. Sergio Rubini,Riccardo Scamarcio,Vittoria Puccini,Richard Sammel are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Colpo d'occhio (2008) is considered one of the best Drama,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Adrian is a young provincial sculptor eager to assert his talent in the art world. Since his first exhibition in the capital, in a group of debutants, his personality leaps to the eyes of Gloria, a young art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two immediately an agreement is born and soon Gloria becomes for Adrian companion, inspiring source of his works as well as agent. But another critic falls in love with Adrian's work: Lulli, an internationally renowned intellectual. The man knows very well Gloria, having been first the guardian and then the lover, until the arrival of Adrian. But these passions only concern the girl who looks suspiciously at the interest of the famous critic for her partner. Adrian instead, thanks to the influence of Lulli, immediately savored the taste of success and decided to rely on the total control of the critic, giving life to a partnership that leads to the inevitable break with Gloria. But a shadow threatens the rise of the young man: on the ...
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Colpo d'occhio (2008) Reviews
A little style with no substance
Sergio Rubini plays an art critic in love and in lust with a former student, the very beautiful Vittoria Puccini. He's been her man, protector and lover since she was 16 years of age. Enters artist Riccardo Scamarcio into their lives and more prominently into Vittoria Puccini's heart and bed. Rubini's critic will do everything to befriend him so he can destroy him. Not bad as a premise but Rubini is not Claude Chabrol and here we spend most of the time way ahead of the characters without really caring about them. The film looks expensive with exterior scenes at the Pantheon and Piazza del Popolo but it's all merely a sterile an annoying exercise in self importance. Sergio Rubini has been better as an actor and much better as a director in the past. Riccardo Scamarcio, beautiful yes, but too much of him shows, mostly, his limitations as an actor. Was Rubini here doing with Scamarcio what his character did to Scamarcio's character? Nastiness can be very entertaining from All About Eve onwards but here it's just predictable and boring. I'm really sorry about that.
A Weak Battle Of Egos
Sergio Rubini directed one of my favorite Italian films of the last few years "La Terra". This new venture however is a massive let down. The idea of an art critic determined to destroy an artist is, was and always will be a good idea for a dark thriller. Here the opportunities are wasted in a series of unconvincing moments promising a lot and delivering nothing.. Well photographed and with a Brian de Palmaish score by the great Pino Donaggio but at its very core a total emptiness. The script is constructed by the numbers but ignoring the most important aspect: the diabolical plan of the critic is told in snippets without ever going into it. The film falls in most of the traps that lowers the standards of the Italian cinema. A gratuitous naked scene by the beautiful Miss Puccini and a series of miscalculated moments that rob the film of any real tension or suspense. Instead it makes it a tedious uninteresting tale of two egos. Rubini has fun with his devilish monster and Riccardo Scamarcio proves that he has a lot to learn. His face becomes tiresome instead of compelling. We just don't believe any of it and as a consequence we don't care. The most interesting character is Claudio, the artist's best friend but ultimately the character is treated like a plot device without a dimension of his own. At a certain moment the critic claims that mediocre artists imitate and that great artists steal. What was doing Sergio Rubini here? Imitating or stealing?
Disappointing
In the worst acted-film that I have seen in the last few years, only from aesthetics comes something good. Good photography and nice spots, with some modern art as background. For the rest, the plot is hardly believable and the characters' behavior seems strange looking at the facts happening. Some scenes are clearly an excuse to show the main actors naked. The deploying of the love story is at soap-opera level, with some moments of embarrassing low level acting (why haven't they tried to improve them with some more "Ciaks"? Are the actors really so bad?). It seems that they were in an hurry to finish the movie, without the time to reach a decent level. Very disappointing!