Fiorile

July. 07,1993      
Rating:
6.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.

Claudio Bigagli as  Corrado / Alessandro
Galatea Ranzi as  Elisabette / Elisa
Michael Vartan as  Jean / Massimo
Lino Capolicchio as  Luigi
Constanze Engelbrecht as  Juliette
Athina Cenci as  Gina
Giovanni Guidelli as  Elio
Pier Paolo Capponi as  Duilio
Fritz Müller-Scherz as  University Professor

Reviews

Hellen
1993/07/07

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Pluskylang
1993/07/08

Great Film overall

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ThrillMessage
1993/07/09

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

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Matylda Swan
1993/07/10

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

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1993/07/11

A neat historical thriller, fiorile is my first Taviani film, but it probably won't be my last. I hadn't really read much about the film, except to form the opinion that it was probably a routine quality children's fantasy film, so I let it pass me by for years. It is actually a historical thriller about several generations of a family, told as a tale to the children of the present day family, mingled with a caution about the legend's possible effect on the children. There are some rather predictable elements to the film, but the acting is excellent by all, and the sumptuous Italian settings give a feel of Shakespeare mixed with the modern day, and the ending has considerable style. Well worth adding to your collection.

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lastliberal
1993/07/12

When you have several hundred films in your queue, sometimes you forget just why it is there. I am not familiar with the work of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and I don't recognize any of the stars. I haven't even seen Chiara Caselli before. She gives us a glimpse of her beauty late in the film, but I am told there are better films to see her.So, did I just make a mistake and now regret it? No, the film was a beautiful fantasy drama that told how money can come to be looked upon as a curse. Even knowing that, the curse lives on in the children. Once you touch gold, you cannot let go.It was a nice film, with brilliant cinematography, and not a waste of time.

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dromasca
1993/07/13

The Taviani brothers have a definite place in the history of Italian cinema. They were highly regarded in the 70s and 80s, but lately their creative power and success seems to have diminished. 'Fiorile' is one of the later films, and the rust begins to be visible. It is a romantic story, spread over almost two hundred years and several generations, a story of love, lust, money and damnation. It is well filmed, and well told, but it is too conventional, and the message - if there is any - gets lost in the multitude of the characters, none really catching the eye or due to resist in the long term memory. We are left with a film in the good European tradition, good acting, nice filming, but still not a great achievement. Worth seeing in any case. 8/10 on my personal scale.

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pyamada
1993/07/14

Like all the Taviani Brothers films, this one looks great, but it is rotten to the core with false romanticism, and coincidences heap upon each other in some facsimile of a "story". In actuality, this is really just a sentimentally cheap tear jerker posing as an intellectually distinguished art film.

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