The Night of the Shooting Stars

The Night of the Shooting Stars Italian La Notte di San Lorenzo , also known as The Night of San Lorenzo is a 1982 Italian fantasy war drama film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Special Grand Prix. The film was also selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The film was given a rapturous review by the critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker The Night of the Shooting Stars is so good its thrilling. This new film encompasses a vision of the world. Comedy, tragedy, vaudeville, melodrama theyre all here, and inseparable...In its feeling and completeness, Shooting Stars may be close to the rank of Jean Renoirs bafflingly beautiful Grand Illusion...unreality doesnt seem divorced from experience as it does with Fellini its experience made more intense...For the Tavianis, as for Cecilia, the search for the American liberators is the time of their lives. For an American audience, the film stirs warm but tormenting memories of a time when we were beloved and were a hopeful people.

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