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Genre: Television, Foreign Films, Italian, Kidnapping And Missing Persons, Thriller, Television, Theatrical Release, Crime, Europe, Italy, Kidnapping, Parents, Vacations, 1970s
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast/Crew: Giuseppe Cristiano, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Mattia Di Pierro, Diego Abatantuono
Description:
Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and running through the wheat fields. In fact, the wheat could be considered Michele's costar, as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen, showing how Michele plays, hides, and ponders life in the vast expanses of flowing yellow stalks. Because there are only a few other children in the village, Michele often plays alone, and one day he discovers a hole in the ground, obscured by wheat, where a boy his age is chained and imprisoned. The boy has clearly been starved and mistreated, yet Michele approaches him fearlessly and attempts to make friends with him. With the dreaminess that is a 10-year-old's truest treasure, Michele doesn't ask too many questions, nor does he draw conclusions about why the boy is in the hole, or who put him there. Through the expressions on young Michele's face, viewers can read his light questioning of human existence, human morality, and human rights. However, as the film draws on, subtly revealing shocking secrets about the adults in Michele's village, the beauty of this utterly simple yet deadly powerful plot come clear. I'M NOT SCARED is a moving film built on crystal-clear images of the Italian sun, sky, and wheat fields; strangely offset by its startling loss-of-innocence story.
Review:
I'm Not Scared No one can be trusted and everyone's a suspect when a shocking secret is revealed in this hypnotic suspense thriller from the acclaimed director of the Academy Award(R)-winning MEDITERRANEO (Best Foreign Language Film, 1991). For 10-year-old Michele, the familiar routines of childhood in his idyllic southern Italian village are about to be shattered by his chance discovery of an unspeakable crime! Soon beyond the point of no return, Michele will risk everything to expose the truth ... only to learn that those he depends on the most may have the most to hide! Hailed by critics everywhere, this award-winning story of innocence and evil will have you riveted throughout ... culminating in its stunning conclusion! Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Release Notes:
DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - (unspecified)
ItemID: 1131680
StockID: 36591
UPC: 786936259490
ISBN: 6308698865
Catalog Number: DIS 38039
Rating: R (MPAA)
Rating Reason: disturbing images and language
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
In Print Date: 7/3/2005
Original Release Year: 2004
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Italian (English Dubbed)
Closed Caption: Yes
Runtime: 1Hr 41min
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Quantity Available: 277
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