leplatypus "La" Bellucci being Italian and famous, she features in Italian productions that can reach my french pastures, so I can keep in touch with this cool country: Italia has everything ready to make people enjoy life: clothes, music, pasta,.. Maybe that's why Italians are said to be smiling French, and French sad Italians! What is also striking after watching Italian TV is that the ordinary people has more weight there than in France where they turn invisible in front of the "People"! So, it isn't a surprise that this movie is about an ordinary family, except that every member seems very unhappy and broken. It's always paradoxical for me because it doesn't suppose to be like this: Married with children, it is all that it takes to have a perfect life! I'm single and I know the sadness to lead a lonely life.At the end, they gather themselves together and are closer than ever! In between, they face their private dragons, their biggest tragedies, they are at each other's throats. For more than 20 minutes, the atmosphere is very heavy, with cries, shoots, slaps… So, they learn to survive and forgive! So, just watch this movie and I'm sure you will say, as me, I will remember it!

jpschapira I read somewhere that "Remember Me" doesn't succeed at achieving everything it wants to be; this is false. This movie achieves everything it is with great professionalism and expertise. What is this? To show the turning point of the lives of several characters, and to make us understand that a turning point can arrive at any time of our lives. The characters in the film are 17, 19 and above forty years old. Of course, they are a family, but that doesn't change the unusual ages in which their turning point arrives.We are first introduced to Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Giulia (Laura Morante), the married couple, by a narration that sounds so accurate and charming it made me forget about the horrible narration used in "Perfume". This narration knows its time, and it appears only at the turning points of the film, which are not the same as 'the' turning point I mentioned above, and play more as twists…The movie has many of these, and the narration refers to them in the way Meredith Grey would in "Grey's Anatomy"; but somehow they sound right. In "Perfume", the narration was full of unnecessary comments during unnecessary moments.Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) and Paolo (Silvio Muccino) are also described by the soft narrated voice, and their descriptions are the work of a gifted writer; Gabriele Muccino. Unlike his script for "The Last Kiss", Muccino here collaborated with Heidrun Schleef, and they both show a sense of reality that these days is very difficult to achieve. All the changes they introduce to the screenplay, from beginning to end; we accept, because we believe their characters as soon as we see them.Muccino is also a gifted director, and through his words, he presents a story so beautiful and complex and painful that it will probably get tears out of your eyes. But "Remember Me" is no sermon; it's a true lesson of life and love, and Muccino tells it in a world of constant disappointment and frustration, of things forgotten and lost, but a world that also offers new opportunities and keeps the faith. There were times where I felt like watching "El hijo de la novia" again; where you were taken from sorrow to joy…Non-stop.This movie comes to Argentina now, after four years of being made and I think watching it once may not be enough. I think you should watch it five times and follow closely the development of a different character during each viewing. Because there's one character who also experiences a big change, and it's beautifully played by Monica Bellucci but that's all I say about it. So maybe after watching it five times, you can completely appreciate it.There are details in every character; details in every performance worth watching again. Laura Morante's character lies on a fine line between insanity and sense, and her performance (which made me think of a big friend, Dolores, and a possibility of her acting sooner or later) is fabulous because she's never too much of either; so she leaves no room for exaggeration in her portrayal and remains a palpable being. Bentivoglio's work is a way to see how a man can get rid all the rage he feels inside by doing what he really feels…The classic way of escaping the routine, that Silvio Muccino tenderly captures in a slightly different way. And Nicoletta Romanoff's character requires bravery to appear ridiculous…Her performance has courage to spare.Pieces like this one take romance and comedy and drama to a whole different level. Maybe "Remember Me" is the film that we need to see, so that it will generate a turning point in our lives and we'll never enter to the cinema to watch something like "No Reservations" again. Yes, that's a regular film; but beside this it's nothing.

Roland E. Zwick There's a strange sort of paradox at work in "Remember Me, My Love," an Italian film that seems to be operating under some bizarre inverse law of quantum physics. For while the movie itself moves at a breakneck pace, hurtling from one scene to another with near-reckless abandon, we can't help noticing that the faster it goes, the slower it seems. Perhaps, we simply wear ourselves out trying to keep up with it and it is this exhaustion factor that ultimately accounts for our restlessness and ennui."Remember Me, My Love" focuses on a family of four, whose members haven't been getting along too well of late. The parents, Carlo and Giulia, are both trying to find ways to cope with a bad case of middle aged crisis: he, by rekindling a romance with a beautiful former flame, and she, by pursuing the career in acting she abandoned when she became a wife and mother. Their children, Valentina and Paolo, are typical adolescents, all caught up in rebellion, identity crises and complicated affairs of the heart.Although the film attempts to provide some insight into the complexities of modern family life, the characters come across as so whiny and self-indulgent that any sympathy they might have engendered on the part of the audience quickly turns to indifference and even irritation. The actors do their best (particularly Laura Morante as Giulia), but the characters they are called on to play never engage us much beyond the surface level. This lack of depth is further compounded by the whirlwind nature of the storytelling, which rarely allows the actors the time they need to settle down and work out the subtle nuances of their roles.In all fairness, I must admit that, in the second hour, the film improves considerably, trafficking in some genuinely raw emotions that exemplify the devastating effects that a disintegrating marriage can have on all members of a family. Moreover, the film ends on a courageously inconclusive note, which goes a long way towards mitigating some of the theatricality and artificiality that permeate the rest of the movie.Taken as a whole, "Remember Me, My Love" turns out to be much less than the sum of its parts, but the performances and a few good scenes do make it palatable.

TdSmth5 Just like the director's previous effort _The Last Kiss_ this movie is about life. And no one brings more realism to his representations of the human condition than Muccino. There's pain and suffering, there's pleasures and elation, loss and gain, sadness and happiness but mostly a search to find ourselves in the time we have been given. Unlike one-dimensional American movies, Muccino's films show how with pleasure comes pain and that in pain are the seeds of pleasure. The acting is perfect. Bellucci looks gorgeous and so does Laura Morante. There is so much going on in this film that invariably, some story lines will be less interesting to some than others. This and _The Last Kiss_ are great celebrations of life.