IO CAPITANO Movie Review | Academy Awards 2024 | Matteo Garrone | Italy
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2024
- We finish out the nominees for best international feature at the 2024 Academy Awards with Italy's "Io Capitano." The drama from director and co-writer Matteo Garrone follows the journey of Senegalese teenagers Seydou and Moussa (Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall), cousins who attempt an arduous trek across Northern Africa and into Italy to become pop stars. We're divided about how successful the film is, but agree that there are far stronger contenders for this year's international feature Oscar, including "The Zone of Interest" and "The Teachers' Lounge." In theaters now.
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I'm italian and I'm glad you'e reviewed this film and that Garrone chose to make a film like this. This story is part of a larger serious issue we face daily in Italy, since we're right in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. There's a massive problem concerning immigration and refugees...how to handle it properly and make it safe for people coming to the whole EU. There's unfortunately much death, illegality and racism surrounding the matter (and bad politics). And in Italy immigrants, second generation immigrants et cetera rarely have a voice. You barely see them on tv speaking about what happens to them or their journey or in media. Hopefully things will be handled better as we go on, people's sensibilities will change.
I love this movie. And yes feels episodic because is intentional, Garrone follows the Homeric Hero’s Journey, at least the first 7 seven stages: 1) the call for the adventure, 2) the refuse of the call, 3)the supernatural mentor, 4) crossing the threshold, 5) the test, enemies and allies, 6) the innermost cave, 6) the ordeal and 7) the rewards.
Thanks for that insight! Glad it worked for you more than it did for us.
I think that for us living here in Europe, every day every day every day confronted with hundreds of these poor people, especially young men, sleeping in the freezing cold streets all winter, it just makes this film so much more important and poignant... we all know they went through a lot to get here but actually seeing it up on the screen has an impact on attitudes. It came out New Year and is still playing in a couple of cinemas in Paris. Although the film is fiction, of course it's all entirely based on real stories recounted by such survivors...138,000 such illegal immigrants arrived in Italy in 2022, and even more in certain other European countries.
Lol, you guys are such critics 😉 So a film where hardly anything happens, such as a man cleaning toilets for 90 minutes, is brilliant, but a movie that's accessible and heartfelt is penalized just for that alone. A friend of mine once made a truly brilliant observation: Film critics need movies that are at least a little boring and hard to understand, because if a movie is accessible and has clarity they know what to tear apart. But if a movie is hard to follow, they call it brilliant because they can't quite figure out what to attack. If they understood that same movie, they'd tear it apart. Io Capitano is one of the best films of the year. It's not episodic at all. The film follows a journey full of obstacles, though each obstacle has the same narrative thread, and therefore shouldn't be called episodes. The film does paint broad strokes at times, but that's okay. If boredom is not penalized, why should a little melodrama be? The fantasy scenes didn't work for me either, but that's just two scenes. Let's not forget the amazing filmmaking and cinematography this movie has. Plus the film makes you feel. How can you be against that? And I totally disagree that sentimental films are common in this category. I watch all the nominated International Films every year, and what's common is slow art movies with "restraint" like Perfect Days. I'm glad this category was able to recognize a more heartfelt film. I think Io Capitano is the second best of the 5 after Society of the Snow.
I enjoyed the movie, glad you did too, but let’s not criticize others for sharing their opinions. I’ve always found that listening to opposing opinions/beliefs helps me understand my own stances better. Also, for as many arthouse films that Christy and Alonso have interviewed, they’re also never afraid to gush about a big goofy blockbuster. That’s why we love them! :)
I partially understand all of the arguments mentioned here. However, there are many things this film does well IMO:
- Senegal isn’t portrayed as a helpless place
- the main characters are not portrayed as heroes
- it’s exclusively focused on the North African migrant experience, culture, music, languages, food, etc. Instead of using North and West Africa as a vehicle to introduce and teach something to the European audience
- As sentimental as it is, it doesn’t make the mistake of making the main character the target of all struggles (his friends do not die, all his choices do not lead to a worse outcome)
I truly understand the genius of films like the zone of interest, however, and bringing that film to the center of my argument, don’t you think that by discounting the topic in this movie as “something you have seen a thousand times” we are falling in the trap that the zone of interest talks about? A total desensitization for what happens to humans right in front of us and that need for their stories to be told in an “ambitious enough manner” so that we can feel slightly interested on them? Simply emotional stories behind a glass in a museum of suffering is too old for us?
Like, would any 16 year old take on that journey and come out of it with an ultimate sense of responsibility? Would your sons? Would we? I guess not
Let alone the fact that as a film, this movie has outstanding cinematography, beautiful soundtrack and straightforward, honest storytelling. As a Colombian who grew up in a not so nice place, I truly hope people don’t get tired of listening to “emotional”, “episodic” journeys that happen on a daily basis to humans who feel and have emotions, either if such stories are told in a straightforward or convoluted manner
The magical realism was at least some sort of reprieve, everything leading up to that is so incredibly traumatic
Garrone’s Tale of Tales is a favorite of mine. His sense of how to use magical realism is second to none, for me. Really looking forward to this one.
Saw it this afternoon. I loved Seydou! It's an unusual topic for an Italian sponsored film considering what I've felt as the anti-immigrant sentiments in Italy lately. Is this the first year we've even had all five films nominated get a US release before the Oscars? Hell, some of the 10 Best Film options are always "just fine" every year!
There is not such thing like anti-immigrants sentiment in Italy. Many of us actually relate to these african immigrants because italians have been immigrants themselves and in many cases have been subjected to discriminations.
(In my Matt Atchity voice while wearing a hawaiian shirt) "I liked this more than you guys did"
Ha, we're glad!
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Still remember his gritty movie Gomorra which left an impression on me & got spun off into a tv show. Are you both watching/reviewing the FX Shogun show?
Besides seeing it on a list, this is the first time I've heard anyone review this film. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! We'll always review these kinds of films here, as you know.
I know the numbers you guys give are pretty arbitrary but I find the 7 the funniest number you guys give-the amount of times a movie sounds not at all worth your time vs. really great and everyone should see it, and ends up with a number in the 7s is always funny to me.
I know they didn’t make the final list, but have you guys seen “The Taste of Things” and “The Settlers”?
I love you both but you know that. So happy you covered all 5.
Are you going to review The Promised Land with Mads Mikkelsen? It was on the Oscar shortlist but didn’t make it. I think it was in a few theatres in February. I thought it was terrific
I was not prepared or in the right head space when I saw this fr
I need fire extinguishers. I don't need guns. 🔥❤️
Sooo . . . better than Spice World?
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I love Garrone, and I came out of this REALLY disappointed. It felt very Society of the Snow in that it takes really serious, important subject matter and makes it too saccharine and overbearing and shiny to hit, like a Netflix production. Which is odd because A) that’s just not Garrone’s bag at all and B)…it isn’t even a Netflix movie. I think the biggest issue is that every obstacle that’s presented just gets solved almost instantly; no real stakes to anything.
Can you make an objective argument as to why saccharine is bad for a movie? I don't mean opinion, such as the usual complaints: It's corny, it's hand holding, etc. But an objective argument that explains how saccharine harms the viewer's experience or makes a movie bad or inferior.
@@angelthman1659I've just seen the film. It's not even that saccharine. There's some very disturbing stuff in this film and we need a little uplift at the end!
How can you say such a thing when the main character gets literally tortured and his cousin gets shot? People are already complaining that the movie is melodramatic, imagine if narratively it made the choice to kill his cousin or friends. I bet everyone would call it “exploitative” or whatever. Instead, the film makes the choice of focusing all the stakes on the main character and his sense of responsibility. He pays for it, he feels guilty often, and the stakes are often high
@@viviantriana5146 because as soon as he gets tortured, he’s given a way out with the bricklayer guy. Then you tho k he’s gonna get stuck in exploitative slave labour, and 5 minutes later the guy offers him a paid way out after one good job. Then he spends about 5 minutes of screen time looking for his cousin in a giant metropolis thousands of miles away from where they were separated, before finding him. Then he’s faced with the difficulty of driving the boat, and then just… manages just fine. It doesn’t have to be “exploitative” but some genuine stakes would have been nice, especially from a director who can do so much better in that respect.
@@angelthman1659 The saccharine approach takes away any genuine sense of stakes in the story and undermines the difficulty of the journey for the sake of crowd-pleasing shlock.
Sounds like this is a very blah film, oh well.
It's actually really good.
It isn’t. I think you should watch it