Fuori dal mondo (1999)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Giuseppe Piccioni

Writers:

Giuseppe Piccioni (story) and
Gualtiero Rosella (story) ...

Release Date:

26 March 1999 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Le cose che vogliamo accadono sempre nel momento sbagliato troppo presto, troppo tardi, un pò prima, un pò dopo.

Plot:

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Plot Keywords:

Sweater | Baby | Mother | Nun | Dry Cleaning

Awards:

10 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Margherita Buy	...	Sister Caterina
Silvio Orlando	...	Ernesto
Carolina Freschi	...	Teresa
Maria Cristina Minerva	...	Esmeralda
Sonia Gessner
Alessandro Di Natale	...	Gabriele, the policeman
Riccardo De Torrebruna
Stefano Abbati
Fabio Sartor
Giuliana Lojodice	...	Caterina's mother
Marina Massironi	...	Marina
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Francesco Foti	...	Police man
Silvano Piccardi	...	Man with wig
Gianni Quillilo	...	Ristoratore

Also Known As:

Not of This World (USA)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Germany:6 | Italy:T | Peru:14 | Spain:7

Filming Locations:

Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Company:

Lumière & Company

Soundtrack:

Daydreaming

Sensible

having missed the showtime for one of the blockbusters in the cinemaplex in this xmas season, we instead diverted to a small art-sy theather in the cultural district to see this film. After five minutes, I was already believing I was better off in the cinemaplex to watch action-packed fast moving images with special effects in surround-sound state-of-the-art stadium seating theaters, and was somewhat put off by the slow moving italian film images of a nun looking for meaning behind the find of an abandoned baby. But by the end of movie, we realized that this carefully structured and written work would have never been done in the United States. It was a moving and human touching story, in which the characters were real. If they told me that the dry cleaner workers and the nuns where not actors but actually real people, I would have believed it. It is hard to pack into 90 minutes of reel a story that looks real without having fast cuts, sound bytes, and artificiosities in verbalisms and acting, and thus transmorming a story from real to hyper-real. Spread in the movie story are still pictures of "functional" groups of people, the dry cleaner workers, the nuns, the hospital workers, the ice cream parlor workers, the janitors, the police squad. And they all contribute to give this move a special realistic bond. One important note: all the outdoor scenes are in Milan. This is unusual, as usually all outdoor scenes in Italian movies are in the Rome and surrouding area (just as Southern California is for the US).