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Cultural currents flow in both directions, of course, though foreign films that make it to our shores tend to be limited to the cream of the crop. What's surprising, then, about The Unknown Woman isn't that it's an exceptionally well-crafted work, but that its arrival has stayed so totally under the radar. This is, after all, the latest from Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer-director best known on this side of the pond for Cinema Paradiso. It's also the movie that swept the Donatello Awards - the Italian Oscars - winning Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Music. It's the biggest international hit you've never heard of.
Why does [Irina] want to work in this particular home? That's the first mystery. The next is how she'll gain the position. We learn how determined she is when she offers to pay the building's sleazy concierge a share of her salary if he'll recommend her. And again later, when the family's current maid unexpectedly vacates the post by falling down the apartment house's spiral staircase to her near-death. Once she's hired by the family, Irina's primary interest appears to be the couple's well-hidden safe. Is it money she's after, or something else behind that locked door? Mystery number three.See the full content of this document
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The Unknown Woman
The Unknown Woman *****
FLESH AND BLOODTornatore's latest is an ultraviolent thriller about a woman's attempt to free herself from sexual slavery.The world isn't a very big place anymore. Where on Earth would you have to go, for exam...See the full content of this document
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