On Netflix. I liked it and disliked it for all the same reasons.
It is just gorgeous, of course, that’s why everyone likes it. Every single shot is gorgeous. Put another way, every ... single... shot ... is ... gorgeous. In most movies theres a scene, then an establishing shot, then amother scene, repeat. This movie, there’s a line of dialogue, cinematic masterpiece of a shot, next line of dialogue, next cinematic masterpiece of a shot, repeat for eight hours. It slows things down a bit.
It is realistic. Man lives in Italy, so over half the movie is in Italian with subtitles. I respect the accuracy. Only, you’re already glued to the screen because of the gorgeousness above, and then unless you know Italian you have to read the subtitles. And then if you like your closed captioning, it’s just too much for one screen: Italian text, English text, gorgeousness.
(It’s realistically violent, too. Lots of blood, particularly if you watch to the very end of episode V.)
One thing I liked had no downside; it was educational. Things I learned: Caravaggio killed someone. Italian is super easy to learn. Don’t swim under a boat.
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