THE LEISURE SEEKER - EL VIAJE DE SUS VIDAS
(DEBAJO EN CASTELLANO) This is an American movie (meaning that the story could only happen in the USA), filmed in English and directed by an Italian, Paolo Virzi. I had read that Virzi wrote the script thinking of Donald Sutherland but I got the impression that Helen Mirren stole the show. The plot line basically is a comedy with an unexpected ending. Among its achievements, one is the language. The dialogue never sounds as if it were “translated” into English from another language. Somehow this movie reminds me of Sorrentino’s “The Youth” –a movie filmed in English but told from an Italian or European point of view as opposed to a Hollywood treatment-. But, as I think, Sorrentino’s model was Fellini’s “Otto e Mezzo”, I can´t tell which are Virzi’s models. Another good thing of this movie is that the two main characters seem credible despite their erratic behaviour and, in their relationship, the movie achieves an intimacy or closeness hard for Hollywood mo...