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Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Sergio Castellitto

Bérénice Bejo

Matilda De Angelis

Ettore Scola

Furio Scarpelli

Silvia Scola

A librarian lives with his disabled daughter in his Parisian bookstore. Various characters will change their lives.

Il materiale emotivo

Please, don&apos;t assume you&apos;re gifted in any way. The only gift some might like to receive from this movie has to do with M De Angelis; and still here she shows nothing that she hasn&apos;t already shown in &quot;The Undoing&quot;.

Writer-Director E. Scola who depicted with his 50yo career a lot of the italian esprit before dying recently, wrote the story - which became a comic - going way out of his depth IMO. Someone thought it was worth a movie with Castellitto starring-directing and that&apos;s it.

I just recently reviewed another disaster of a movie: &quot;La mecanica popular&quot; which deals with art, fiction, literature, etc just like this &quot;Il Materiale Emotivo&quot;. I shoud have guessed... Ofc all the emotional material I found were my desperate disappointment for the mediocre prosaic mummified nothingness I witnessed. Luckily here the quantity of pretentious and meaningless shouted lines is lower, and yet... it doesn&apos;t make any difference: why people produce these things? Why not spending a couple of nights for an innocent poem (or a comic) no one will read, and instead polluting the world with these costly, vacuous, artificial, unfunny, anachronistic and brainless allegories?

Let&apos;s add that the dubbing of B. Bejo is abysmal. I still don&apos;t get why you pick foreign actors if they can&apos;t speak the film scripted language... Foreign producers wanted their actors in as well? Well... get a bad review.

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Please, don't assume you're gifted in any way. The only gift some might like to receive from this movie has to do with M De Angelis; and still here she shows nothing that she hasn't already shown in "The Undoing".

Writer-Director E. Scola who depicted with his 50yo career a lot of the italian esprit before dying recently, wrote the story - which became a comic - going way out of his depth IMO. Someone thought it was worth a movie with Castellitto starring-directing and that's it.

I just recently reviewed another disaster of a movie: "La mecanica popular" which deals with art, fiction, literature, etc just like this "Il Materiale Emotivo". I shoud have guessed... Ofc all the emotional material I found were my desperate disappointment for the mediocre prosaic mummified nothingness I witnessed. Luckily here the quantity of pretentious and meaningless shouted lines is lower, and yet... it doesn't make any difference: why people produce these things? Why not spending a couple of nights for an innocent poem (or a comic) no one will read, and instead polluting the world with these costly, vacuous, artificial, unfunny, anachronistic and brainless allegories?

Let's add that the dubbing of B. Bejo is abysmal. I still don't get why you pick foreign actors if they can't speak the film scripted language... Foreign producers wanted their actors in as well? Well... get a bad review.

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