Its a wonderful experience to watch this movie mostly because of Salvatore Cascio the little child star of the movie,it gives us people from outside Italy a peep into Italian life and culture also the location of a coastal Italian city shortly after world-war II is filmed beautifully.Like the first scene of the little town where camera starts from Bells of the church and then passes over them looking on to the main town street.
Salvatore Cascio is a very intelligent child interested in films, he develops a friendship with Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) who is a Projectionist in Cinema Paradiso only Cinema Hall in town.Their are many beautiful and poignant scene between them especially when he acts as if he has sprained his ankle when walking with Father Adelfio to get a ride on bicycle with the Projectionist.And there is this scene where the film reel catches fire,Alfredo tries to stop the fire but get burnt instead.Salvatore is in the street when he sees the flames in Projection room,he runs up the stairs and sees Alfredo lying unconscious.The little child pulls a blanket over him and somehow drags him down the stairs.Alfredo looses his eyesight but he had already taught the little Salvatore everything and he gets the job of the projectionist.
Marco Leonardi plays teenage Salvatore and he looks kind of cute with his thick eyelashes. He falls in love with pretty Elena (Agnese Nano).There is this beautiful scene between them where a movie is being shown in open air beside the coast with boats floating in the channel and film projected onto a big screen hung over the houses and Salvatore just lies down on the stone side-walk with his head over water and wishes for a storm.And it comes with thunder and lightening and rain and Elena comes too and kisses him on the lips.
Its a nice movie culminating in kissing scenes from great classic movies.Father Adelfio would act as the censor board and ask Alfredo to cut all kissing scenes,he had joined them all together and left for Salvatore before he died.
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