SYNOPSICS
15 Amore (1998) is a English movie. Maurice Murphy has directed this movie. Lisa Hensley,Steve Bastoni,Domenic Galati,Tara Jakszewicz are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1998. 15 Amore (1998) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance,War movie in India and around the world.
Peace within war. An adult voice narrates a story of childhood during World War II when he lived with his mother, brother, and sister on an estate in Australia's Hunter Valley, his father away fighting, and two Italian prisoners of war staying with them, in effect being his papa. They are joined by Jewish refugees from Berlin, a mother and daughter. There's heat between the German daughter, Rachel, and Joseph, one of the Italians, and there's an attraction between Dorothy, the head of the family, and Alfredo, the other Italian. A carriage accident, a tick, the local martinet, Madame Gutman's pride, and the change that comes with peace threaten to bring tragedy. Plus, father may return.
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15 Amore (1998) Reviews
Game, Set and Match
This delightful film set in the 2nd World War is based on a true story. While it was made in 1998 it wasn't released into Australian cinemas until 2000. Why it was left this long will always be a mystery to me. Australian films, of late, have been fairly well received comedies, and this was a blessed diversion from froth and bubble to a serious but light film. It manages to capture the oppressive beauty and harshness of the Australian outback without jamming it down your throat and takes its time in telling the story, instead of rushing - which is, I feel, a typical Australian story telling style. Outstanding performances from leads Lisa Hensley and Steve Bastoni whose characters sizzle with sexual tension. Well worth seeking out!
A wonderful film
This is a very different but very appealing film. It's a meaningful story with any number of points to make and questions to ask, based on two Italian POW's and two Jewish-German refugees living on an Australian farm with a woman whose husband is off fighting the Japanese. That sounds horrible, I know. But it works. It's gripping, dramatic and visually compelling. However all through this impressive film one painful, embarrassing question nagged at me. Australia and Canada have much in common. We're about the same size with similar populations.Why is it then that the Aussies can produce brilliant films such as this while we crank out the most dreadful stuff.
LOVE this movie!!
Saw 15 Amore at Taos TTPIX Festival and everyone in the audience agreed with me that it was the best thing we saw all day! A true movie of the heart - we laughed, we cried, we sang opera! Maurice Murphy is a charming man with many stories to tell, and it was a pleasure to spend time talking with him. This film deserves a wide release, and people deserve the opportunity to view it...over and over.
Best film EVER!!!
I saw this film at it's opening at the Keno in the soffitel Hotel in Melbourne and it was the best movie I have ever seen! The film is great with beautiful photography and insightful music. I think that Steve Bastoni was fantastic in the film and without him the movie would not be right. I give this movie 10 out of 10. If you haven't seen this movie I recommend that you see it as soon as possible!
It's pretty, has heart but by god the dialogue's clunky
There's some things to like about this film, especially the beautiful sets and the photography. It's a wonderful idea (true story?), too, bringing together the main players who have all lost something in an oasis of calm outside the raging global war. We are presented, in part, with a lilting, lyrical depiction of this little paradise that provides safe haven to them all. The photography gives us golden light and sweeping movements, landscape and close-ups of insects to show the "oneness" and interconnectedness of it all, reinforced by a romantic score. Unfortunately, the jerky, episodic vignettes that are supposed to set the scene and the clunky dialogue provide many jarring moments. The film gradually descends into Mills & Boon romantic schlock, whether it's Steve Bastoni's Alfredo grindingly and palpably resisting temptation with Lisa Hensley's Dorothy, or Joseph and Rachel (played by Domenic Galati and Tara Jakszewicz) engaging in somehow unbelievable carnal acts in the pine needles (do they really cause a rash?). With the exception of Steve Bastoni and Domenic Galati, the performances were distinctly unconvincing. Lisa Hensley has obvious trouble striking a balance between her character's earth mother approach to all the creatures in her care and the "British" reserve that is clearly supposed to contrast with the passionate Italians and the bitter German in the form of Madame Gutman (why Madame if she's German?). The end result is that she just sounds constipated. And I can't believe that I read a review that claims that the film doesn't fall into the trap of characters representing national stereotypes! Are we talking about the same film? As for Rachel's German accent........... The climactic seen where Madame Gutman denounces Alfredo and Joseph to the ineptly played military police is just pure soap, confused and utterly adrift. Silly, in fact. Maybe the simplistic depiction of the characters and events was meant to represent the narrator's childish recollections, but that fails to explain how the child was able to accurately know or observe the emotional trauma and struggles that his characters were going through. As I said, a nice idea and often pretty to watch but, on the whole, clunky and jarring.