IO CAPITANO Movie Review | Academy Awards 2024 | Matteo Garrone | Italy
IO CAPITANO Movie Review | Academy Awards 2024 | Matteo Garrone | Italy
We finish out the nominees for best international feature at the 2024 Academy Awards with Italy’s “Io Capitano.” The drama from director and co-writer Matteo Garrone follows the journey of Senegalese teenagers Seydou and Moussa (Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall), cousins who attempt an arduous trek across Northern Africa and into Italy to become…
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"It's fine"…
These things, this story happens every day for the last 12 years and it was mostly done by our "allies" French, British and Americans through their "colonialism" of poor countries all over the span of centuries. With all a series of consequences that today leads to this shitty untollerable situation.
Poverty, violation of human rights, famine, diseases, the biggest humanitarian crisis ever seen in human history… And for what? To keep these countries great and powerful?
And then these motherfuckers had even the courage to found the United Nations to carry out an hypocrital crusade for "human rights"?
We should spit in the face of the leaders of these nations of the last 300 years just to show off how we are "thanksfull" to have sold our souls to the devil.
Not like the rest of the world is anyhow better, even in my own country there was those who advanced proposes to reject migrants or even shoot at them in a spark of criminal euphoria.
Russians, Chinese, Germans, Japanese… Even the same african leaders takes in their pockets all the billions of dollars and euros we sent to help and leave their people in such deep shit that is embarassing even talk to them and consider them "victims".
And you really think all of this system will last for long? All this pain will disappear without consequences? All these wrongdoings have no retailations?
May God forgive us all because if he can't then we humans are really screwed.
That “hhhh we have seen it before” already tells me that this video is trash and so is your “review”
Are you going to review The Promised Land with Mads Mikkelsen? It was on the Oscar shortlist but didn’t make it. I think it was in a few theatres in February. I thought it was terrific
Lol, you guys are such critics 😉 So a film where hardly anything happens, such as a man cleaning toilets for 90 minutes, is brilliant, but a movie that's accessible and heartfelt is penalized just for that alone. A friend of mine once made a truly brilliant observation: Film critics need movies that are at least a little boring and hard to understand, because if a movie is accessible and has clarity they know what to tear apart. But if a movie is hard to follow, they call it brilliant because they can't quite figure out what to attack. If they understood that same movie, they'd tear it apart. Io Capitano is one of the best films of the year. It's not episodic at all. The film follows a journey full of obstacles, though each obstacle has the same narrative thread, and therefore shouldn't be called episodes. The film does paint broad strokes at times, but that's okay. If boredom is not penalized, why should a little melodrama be? The fantasy scenes didn't work for me either, but that's just two scenes. Let's not forget the amazing filmmaking and cinematography this movie has. Plus the film makes you feel. How can you be against that? And I totally disagree that sentimental films are common in this category. I watch all the nominated International Films every year, and what's common is slow art movies with "restraint" like Perfect Days. I'm glad this category was able to recognize a more heartfelt film. I think Io Capitano is the second best of the 5 after Society of the Snow.
Sooo . . . better than Spice World?
(In my Matt Atchity voice while wearing a hawaiian shirt) "I liked this more than you guys did"
The magical realism was at least some sort of reprieve, everything leading up to that is so incredibly traumatic
I was not prepared or in the right head space when I saw this fr
Sounds like this is a very blah film, oh well.
I know they didn’t make the final list, but have you guys seen “The Taste of Things” and “The Settlers”?
I think that for us living here in Europe, every day every day every day confronted with hundreds of these poor people, especially young men, sleeping in the freezing cold streets all winter, it just makes this film so much more important and poignant… we all know they went through a lot to get here but actually seeing it up on the screen has an impact on attitudes. It came out New Year and is still playing in a couple of cinemas in Paris. Although the film is fiction, of course it's all entirely based on real stories recounted by such survivors…138,000 such illegal immigrants arrived in Italy in 2022, and even more in certain other European countries.
Garrone’s Tale of Tales is a favorite of mine. His sense of how to use magical realism is second to none, for me. Really looking forward to this one.
I love you both but you know that. So happy you covered all 5.
I'm italian and I'm glad you'e reviewed this film and that Garrone chose to make a film like this. This story is part of a larger serious issue we face daily in Italy, since we're right in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. There's a massive problem concerning immigration and refugees…how to handle it properly and make it safe for people coming to the whole EU. There's unfortunately much death, illegality and racism surrounding the matter (and bad politics). And in Italy immigrants, second generation immigrants et cetera rarely have a voice. You barely see them on tv speaking about what happens to them or their journey or in media. Hopefully things will be handled better as we go on, people's sensibilities will change.
I know the numbers you guys give are pretty arbitrary but I find the 7 the funniest number you guys give—the amount of times a movie sounds not at all worth your time vs. really great and everyone should see it, and ends up with a number in the 7s is always funny to me.
Saw it this afternoon. I loved Seydou! It's an unusual topic for an Italian sponsored film considering what I've felt as the anti-immigrant sentiments in Italy lately. Is this the first year we've even had all five films nominated get a US release before the Oscars? Hell, some of the 10 Best Film options are always "just fine" every year!
I love Garrone, and I came out of this REALLY disappointed. It felt very Society of the Snow in that it takes really serious, important subject matter and makes it too saccharine and overbearing and shiny to hit, like a Netflix production. Which is odd because A) that’s just not Garrone’s bag at all and B)…it isn’t even a Netflix movie. I think the biggest issue is that every obstacle that’s presented just gets solved almost instantly; no real stakes to anything.
I love this movie. And yes feels episodic because is intentional, Garrone follows the Homeric Hero’s Journey, at least the first 7 seven stages: 1) the call for the adventure, 2) the refuse of the call, 3)the supernatural mentor, 4) crossing the threshold, 5) the test, enemies and allies, 6) the innermost cave, 6) the ordeal and 7) the rewards.
I need fire extinguishers. I don't need guns. 🔥❤️
Still remember his gritty movie Gomorra which left an impression on me & got spun off into a tv show. Are you both watching/reviewing the FX Shogun show?