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{{Short description|1988 film by Giuseppe Tornatore}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Cinema Paradiso
| image          = CinemaParadiso.jpg
| caption        = Italian theatrical release poster by Cecco Cecchini
| native_name    = {{Infobox name module|it|Nuovo Cinema Paradiso}}
| director       = [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]
| producer       = {{ubl|[[Franco Cristaldi]]|Giovanna Romagnoli}}
| writer         = Giuseppe Tornatore
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Philippe Noiret]]
* [[Jacques Perrin]]
* [[Antonella Attili]]
* [[Pupella Maggio]]
* [[Salvatore Cascio]]
}}
| music          = {{ubl|[[Ennio Morricone]]|[[Andrea Morricone]]}}
| cinematography = [[Blasco Giurato]]
| editing        = [[Mario Morra]]
| studio         = [[Ariane Films|Les Films Ariane]]<br/>[[RAI]]<ref name=adci/><br/>[[TF1]]<ref name=adci/><br/>Cristaldi Film<ref name=adci/><br/>Forum Picture<ref name=adci/>
| distributor    = [[Titanus]] (Italy)<ref name=adci>{{cite web|title=Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)|website=Archivio del Cinema Italiano|access-date=11 July 2021|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=MM7898}}</ref><br/>Ariane Distribution (France)
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1988|11|17}}
| runtime        = 155 minutes<!-- original theatrical runtime -->
| country        = Italy<br/>France
| language       = Italian
| budget         = US$5 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=165RAAAAIBAJ&pg=5536,7233935&dq=cinema+paradiso|last=Vancheri|first=Barabara|title=Foreign-movie nominees discuss money, muses|date=26 March 1990|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|page=10}}</ref>
| gross          = $36 million  (US/France/Italy only)
}}
'''''Cinema Paradiso''''' ({{langx|it|'''Nuovo Cinema Paradiso'''}}, {{IPA|it|ˈnwɔːvo ˈtʃiːnema paraˈdiːzo}}, literally "New Paradise Cinema") is a 1988 [[coming of age film|coming-of-age]] [[Comedy drama|dramedy film]] written and directed by [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]. 

Set in a small Sicilian town, the film centres on the friendship between a young boy and an aging projectionist who works at the titular movie theatre. This Italian-French [[Co-production (media)|co-production]] stars [[Philippe Noiret]], [[Jacques Perrin]], [[Leopoldo Trieste]], [[Marco Leonardi]], [[Agnese Nano]] and [[Salvatore Cascio]]. The film score was composed by [[Ennio Morricone]] and his son, [[Andrea Morricone|Andrea]], marking the beginning of a collaboration between Tornatore and Morricone that lasted until Morricone's death in 2020.

Credited with revitalizing Italy's film industry, ''Cinema Paradiso'' has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time, and a world cinema classic.<ref name=":0"/> The ending is considered among the greatest endings in movie history. It was a commercial success, and won several awards, including the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]<ref name="Oscars1990">{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990|title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners|accessdate=3 July 2021|work=oscars.org}}</ref> and the [[Cannes Film Festival]]'s [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]]. It was nominated for 11 [[BAFTA Award]]s and won five; including [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]] for Philippe Noiret, [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actor]] for Salvatore Cascio, [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]], and [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language|Best Foreign Language Film]], a record for a foreign language feature until it was broken by ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' in 2023.

==Plot==
In 1988 [[Rome]], Salvatore Di Vita, a famous [[film director]], returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, [[Sicily]] in thirty years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo was, Salvatore is not able to fall asleep and flashes back to his childhood.

A few years after [[World War II]], eight-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow. Nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the local [[movie house]], Cinema Paradiso. Although they initially start on tense terms, he develops a friendship with the middle-aged projectionist, Alfredo, who often lets him watch movies from the projection booth. During the shows, the audience can be heard booing because there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing scenes with romantic kisses or embraces. The local priest, the owner of the cinema, had ordered these sections to be censored, and the deleted scenes are cut from the film reels by Alfredo and piled on the projection room floor, where Alfredo keeps them until he can splice them back in for the film to be sent to the next town.

Alfredo eventually teaches Salvatore how to operate the film projector. One day, Cinema Paradiso catches fire as Alfredo is projecting ''[[The Firemen of Viggiù]]'' after hours, on the wall of a nearby house. Salvatore saves Alfredo's life, but not before a reel of [[Nitrocellulose#Film|nitrate film]] explodes in Alfredo's face, leaving him permanently blind. The movie house is rebuilt by a town citizen, Ciccio Spaccafico, using his winnings from a football lottery. Salvatore, still a child, is hired as the new projectionist, as only he knows how to run the machines.

About a decade later, Salvatore, now in high school, is still operating the projector at the "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso". His relationship with the blind Alfredo has strengthened, and Salvatore often looks to him for help – advice that Alfredo often dispenses by quoting classic films. Salvatore has been experimenting with filming, using a home movie camera; doing this he has met, and captured on film, a girl named Elena Mendola, daughter of a wealthy banker, and has fallen in love with her. Salvatore woos – and wins – Elena's heart, only to lose her due to her father's disapproval.

As Elena and her family move away, Salvatore leaves town for [[conscription|compulsory military service]]. His attempts to write to Elena are fruitless; his letters are returned as undeliverable. Upon his return from the military, Alfredo urges Salvatore to leave Giancaldo permanently, counseling that the town is too small for Salvatore to ever find his dreams. Moreover, the old man tells him, once Salvatore leaves, he must pursue his destiny wholeheartedly, never looking back and never returning, even to visit; he must never give in to nostalgia or even write or think about them. They tearfully embrace, and Salvatore leaves to pursue his future as a filmmaker.

Back in the present, Salvatore realizes that he is very satisfied with his life from a professional point of view but not from a personal one, so decides to return home to attend Alfredo's funeral. Though the town has changed greatly, he now understands why Alfredo thought it was important that he leave. Alfredo's widow tells him that the old man followed Salvatore's successes with pride and he left him something: an unlabeled film reel and the old stool that Salvatore once stood on to operate the projector. Salvatore learns that Cinema Paradiso is to be demolished to make way for a parking lot. At the funeral, he recognizes the faces of many people who attended the cinema when he was the projectionist.

Salvatore returns to Rome, watches Alfredo's reel and discovers it comprises all the romantic scenes that the priest had ordered Alfredo to cut from the movies; Alfredo had spliced the sequences together to form a single unreduced film of aching desire and lustful frenzy.

The final scenes shows Salvatore coming to peace with his past, with tears in his eyes.

==Cast==
{{castlist|
* [[Philippe Noiret]] as Alfredo
* [[Salvatore Cascio]] as child Salvatore Di Vita 
** [[Marco Leonardi]] as teenage Salvatore
** [[Jacques Perrin]] as adult Salvatore
* [[Agnese Nano]] as Elena Mendola 
** [[Brigitte Fossey]] as adult Elena (''extended cut only'')
* [[Antonella Attili]] as Maria Di Vita
** [[Pupella Maggio]] as old Maria
* [[Enzo Cannavale]] as Spaccafico
* [[Isa Danieli]] as Anna
* [[Leopoldo Trieste]] as Father Adelfio
* [[Roberta Lena]] as Lia
* [[Nino Terzo]] as Peppino's father
* [[Leo Gullotta]] as the Usher
* [[Tano Cimarosa]] as the Blacksmith
* [[Nicola Di Pinto]] as the Village Idiot
}}

==Production==
''Cinema Paradiso'' was shot in director Tornatore's hometown [[Bagheria]], Sicily, as well as [[Cefalù]] on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Porter|first=Darwin|author2=Danforth Prince|title=Frommer's Sicily |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZDLw0nOnfsC&q=%22Cinema+Paradiso%22&pg=PA132|year=2009|publisher=Frommer's|isbn=978-0-470-39899-9|page=132}}</ref> The town square in the film is Piazza Umberto I in the village of Palazzo Adriano, about 30 miles south of Palermo. The ‘Paradiso’ cinema was built here, at Via Nino Bixio, overlooking the octagonal Baroque fountain, which dates from 1608.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/c/Cinema-Paradiso.html#.U2qkafldUto|title=Cinema Paradiso film locations (1988)|work=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations|accessdate=7 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508031042/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/c/Cinema-Paradiso.html#.U2qkafldUto|archivedate=8 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Told largely in [[Flashback (literary technique)|flashback]] of a successful film director Salvatore to his childhood years, it also tells the story of the return to his native [[Sicily|Sicilian]] village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo, the projectionist at the local "Cinema Paradiso". Ultimately, Alfredo serves as a wise father figure to his young friend who only wishes to see him succeed, even if it means breaking his heart in the process.

Seen as an example of "nostalgic postmodernism",<ref>[[#Ma|Marcus, p. 99]]</ref> the film intertwines [[sentimentality]] with [[comedy]], and nostalgia with [[pragmaticism]]. It explores issues of [[youth]], [[coming of age]], and reflections (in [[adulthood]]) about the past. The imagery in the scenes can be said to reflect Salvatore's idealised memories of his [[childhood]]. ''Cinema Paradiso'' is also a celebration of films; as a projectionist, young Salvatore (a.k.a. Totò) develops a passion for films that shapes his life path in adulthood.

==Releases==
The film exists in multiple versions. It was originally released in Italy at 155 minutes, but poor [[box office]] performance in its native country led to its being shortened to 124 minutes for international release; in that form it was successful.<ref>[[#Bo|Bondanella, p. 454]]</ref> This international version won the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Special Jury Prize]] at the [[1989 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/236/year/1989.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Cinema Paradiso |access-date=1 August 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> and the 1989 [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]. In 2002, the [[director's cut]] 173-minute version was released (known in the U.S. as '''''Cinema Paradiso: The New Version'''''), although this was the original version, used at the film's premiere at the Europa Cinema Festival, 29 September 1988, in Bari.

===Director's cut===
In the 173-minute version of the film, after the funeral, Salvatore notices an adolescent girl who resembles the teenage Elena. He follows as she rides her scooter to her home, which allows Salvatore to contact his long-lost love Elena, who is revealed to be the girl's mother. Salvatore calls her in hopes of rekindling their romance; she initially rejects him, but later reconsiders and goes to see Salvatore, who was contemplating his rejection at a favorite location from their early years. Their meeting ultimately leads to a lovemaking session in her car. He learns that she had married an acquaintance from his school years, who became a local politician of modest means. Afterwards, feeling cheated, he strives to rekindle their romance, and while she clearly wishes it were possible, she rejects his entreaties, choosing to remain with her family and leave their romance in the past.

During their evening together, a frustrated Salvatore asks Elena why she never contacted him or left word of where her family was moving to. He learns that the reason they lost touch was because Alfredo asked her not to see him again, fearing that Salvatore's romantic fulfillment would only destroy what Alfredo sees as Salvatore's destiny – to be successful in the cinema world. Alfredo tried to convince her that if she loved Salvatore, she should leave him for his own good. Elena explains to Salvatore that, against Alfredo's instruction, she had secretly left a note with an address where she could be reached and a promise of undying love and loyalty. Salvatore realizes that he never found that note, and thus lost his true love for more than thirty years. The next morning, Salvatore returns to the decaying Cinema Paradiso and frantically searches through the piles of old film invoices pinned to the wall of the projection booth. There, on the reverse side of one of the dockets, he finds the handwritten note Elena had left thirty years earlier.

The film ends with Salvatore returning to Rome and, with teary eyes, viewing the film reel that Alfredo left.

==Home media==
A special edition of ''Cinema Paradiso'' was released on DVD by [[Umbrella Entertainment]] on 4 September 2006. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer, the Director's Cut version, scenes from the Director's Cut, the [[Ennio Morricone]] soundtrack and a documentary on Giuseppe Tornatore.<ref>{{cite web|title=Umbrella Entertainment - Special Edition DVD|url=http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-1880-cinema-paradiso-special-edition.aspx|accessdate=28 May 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828081109/http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-1880-cinema-paradiso-special-edition.aspx|archive-date=28 August 2011}}</ref>

An Academy Award edition of ''Cinema Paradiso'' was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment on 1 February 2009. It is also compatible with all region codes and includes different special features such as Umbrella Entertainment trailers, cast and crew biographies and the Director's filmography.<ref>{{cite web|title=Umbrella Entertainment - Academy Award DVD |url=http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-2187-academy-award-winner-cinema-paradiso.aspx|accessdate=28 May 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127185554/http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-2187-academy-award-winner-cinema-paradiso.aspx|archivedate=27 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 1 July 2011, Umbrella Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray.<ref>{{cite web| title=Umbrella Entertainment - Blu-ray|url=http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-2866-cinema-paradiso-blu-ray.aspx|accessdate=28 May 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604041131/http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-2866-cinema-paradiso-blu-ray.aspx|archivedate=4 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Arrow released a remastered special edition Blu-ray of the film, with both theatrical and extended cuts, in 2017.

In June 2020, [[Arrow Films]] announced a 4K UHD Blu-ray release with both of the aforementioned cuts due for September of that year, with the 124-minute theatrical cut as a 4K UHD presentation, the 174-minute Director’s Cut as a Blu-ray presentation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cinema Paradiso UHD Blu-ray|url=https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/cinema-paradiso-uhd-blu-ray/FCD2054|website=[[Arrow Films]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Cinema Paradiso'' was a box-office success. 

The film was released twice in Italy before its Cannes win and flopped at the box office both times. After the Cannes win it was re-released and performed steadily<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=50|date=30 August 1989|title=Titanus on a roll: seven films tapped for slots in Venice}}</ref> however, following its Academy Award success, it was released again and performed better, grossing $5.3 million in Italy.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=3 September 1990|page=56|title=Top 10 draw $167 mil}}</ref> In France, the film ran for over a year, grossing over $19 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|page=38|date=24 September 1990|title='Paradiso' kicked out of Paris by 'Everybody's Fine'}}</ref> In the United States and Canada, it grossed $12.3 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4048258561/weekend/|title=Cinema Paradiso (1990)|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>
===Critical response===
''Cinema Paradiso'' received widespread critical acclaim, making Tornatore internationally known, and is regarded by many as a classic. [[Review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports that 91% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 86 reviews, with an average score of 8/10. The critics consensus reads, "''Cinema Paradiso'' is a life-affirming ode to the power of youth, nostalgia, and the the{{sic}} movies themselves."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cinema_paradiso|title=''Cinema Paradiso'' (''Nuovo Cinema Paradiso'') (1988)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref> The film holds a score of 80 based on 21 reviews on [[Metacritic]], indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/cinema-paradiso|title=Cinema Paradiso|website=Metacritic|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>  It is particularly renowned for the 'kissing scenes' montage at the film's end. Winning the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best Foreign Film]] in 1989, the film is often credited with reviving Italy's film industry, which later produced ''[[Mediterraneo (film)|Mediterraneo]]'' and ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''. 

Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] gave it 3.5 stars out of four<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1990|title=Cinema Paradiso Movie Review & Film Summary|date=16 March 1990|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|via=[[RogerEbert.com]]|author-link=Roger Ebert|last=Ebert|first=Roger|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref> and four stars out of four for the extended version, declaring "Still, I'm happy to have seen it--not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes." Oddly, despite giving a higher rating to the extended version, Ebert maintained that the theatrical version was superior: "I must confess that the shorter version of Cinema Paradiso is a better film than the longer."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-the-new-version-2002|title=Cinema Paradiso: The New Version Movie Review|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=28 June 2002|first=Roger|last=Ebert|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>

The film was ranked #27 in ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine|title=The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema: 27. Cinema Paradiso|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/|author=Willow Green|magazine=Empire|date=23 September 2019}}</ref> The famed "kissing scene" montage at the end of the film was used in "[[Stealing First Base]]", an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' that aired on 21 March 2010, during its [[The Simpsons (season 21)|twenty-first season]]. The scene used Morricone's "Love Theme" and included animated clips of famous movie kisses, including scenes used in ''Cinema Paradiso'' as well as contemporary films not shown in the original film. American progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]] 1992 album ''[[Images and Words]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> song "[[Take the Time]]" features in the lyrics the sentence spoken by Alfredo after the fire, "''ora che ho perso la vista, ci vedo di più''! (I can see much clearer now I'm blind)".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Movie quotes in Dream Theater lyrics|url=http://www.imdb.com/list/ls049607315/|access-date=2 August 2023|website=IMDb}} {{unreliable?|date=October 2023}}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
[[File:Cinema_Paradiso_poster.jpg|thumb|right|French poster, by Jouineau Bourduge, the last film poster to win a [[César Award]]]]
* 1989: [[1989 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]
** [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix du Jury]] (tied with ''[[Trop belle pour toi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/nuovo-cinema-paradiso|title=Nuovo Cinema Paradiso|publisher=[[Cannes Film Festival]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1989: [[Golden Globe Awards]]
** [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/cinema-paradiso|title=Cinema Paradiso|publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1989: [[62nd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
** [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]<ref name="Oscars1990"/>
* 1990: [[15th César Awards|César Awards]]
** [[César Award for Best Poster]]: Jouineau Bourduge
* [[44th British Academy Film Awards|1991]]: [[BAFTA Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1991/film|title=Film in 1991|publisher=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]]|accessdate=3 July 2021}}</ref>
** [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]]
** [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]]: [[Philippe Noiret]]
** [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]: [[Salvatore Cascio]]
** [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]: [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]
** [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|Best Film Music]]: [[Ennio Morricone]] and [[Andrea Morricone]]

==See also==
* [[List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Bondanella|first=Peter E.|title=Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiTBFMc7tp4C&q=%22Cinema+Paradiso%22|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Continuum International Publishing|isbn=978-0826412478}}
* {{cite book|last=Marcus|first=Millicent Joy|title=After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d41GI1PbZKoC&q=%22Cinema+Paradiso%22&pg=PA199|date=24 April 2002|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0801868474}}

==External links==
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