It was really a pleasure to watch this movie since trough the history of the main character is telling about the history of Sicily, where I am coming from. I have to say that the movie is a masterpiece of the neo-realism, since the aspects shown are really matching with the reality. The movie confirm the extraordinary capacities of Tornatore (I love his "Cinema Paradiso"). Differently from our movies, the characters shown are not important people but normal people fighting every day their small/big challenges in order to run a normal life and to try to realize their dreams or maybe only to continue to dream. Interesting as well, as a lot of important actors (like Monica Bellucci, Raul Bova, etc) decided to play a humble role of appearance. It was particularly funny personally for me, to watch the movie in original language and subtitles in German for my girlfriend. The Sicilian language is so unique that some terms is almost impossible to translate.
Review of Baaria
