THE STAR MAKER (L'Uomo delle Stelle) (1995) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Giuseppe Tornatore
 
Written by - Giuseppe Tornatore, Fabio Rinaudo
 
Starring - Sergio Castellitto
 
 
 
"After exploring the nostalgic side of the cinema in older Sicily, Tornatore looks at its darker side. Set in the mid fifties, a con artist travels through Sicily pretending to be a man working for a cinema production company looking for new faces. When he meets a beautiful and naïve young girl, his conscience begins to haunt him. Tornatore’s film is made of great sequences where real Sicilian townspeople and actors and reveal their dreams and sins as if the camera were a confessor. Though the film is essentially a tragic and dark drama, it is also testimony of the importance the object of cinema was given and what it represented among the poor classes. Castellitto’s lead performances is intense."
 
 
Drama, Italy