“Cinema Paradiso” is a 1988 Italian film which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards. A famous film director receives word that Alfredo has died. Alfredo was the middle-aged projectionist at the little town cinema who befriended the then 8-year-old director thirty years earlier. The film unwinds as the director’s flashback memories of his youth, with a memorable score by the great Ennio Morricone. Sentimental, nostalgic, often hilarious, the film ends with the director returning home for Alfredo's funeral and receiving a gift from Alfredo’s widow, something from Alfredo, a gift that commemorates the wonder of life at the crux of the movie. This wonderful film is what you might call a feel-good movie. Spoiler alert: I guarantee that you'll be smiling at the end.
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