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Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 24 nominations
Salvatore Ficarra
- Nino
- (as Salvo Ficarra)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaBaarìa is the Sicilian name of Bagheria, a small town close to Palermo where Tornatore, the film director, was born and grew up. Most of the scenes were shot in Bagheria, however, others were shot on a massive set in Tunisia, where part of the Sicilian town was reconstructed according to the urban aspect the city had in the early 1900s.
- Alternate versionsThe initial UK DVD release of the film (by eone entertainment) is heavily cut, missing a total of ten minutes of footage. Not only is the 'controversial' cow death scene almost entirely cut out (missing the actual cow execution and subsequent bloodletting), but most of the scenes in the film are abridged by at least several seconds (and a few times cut out entirely).
- ConnectionsFeatures Cabiria (1914)
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Lovely to look at. A chunk of 1900 set in a small Sicilian town, that town where Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer director, was born. I thought it was a delightful two and a half hours of snippets between fades to black. just like memories work, a bit of this and a bit of that. A tapestry of highs and lows among the remarkably unremarkable. My only puzzlement comes with the way Italians are reacting to "Baaria" Even if it was at the top of the box office charts there is tendency to dismiss this film for not confronting this for not confronting that for being too "clean" and a lot of other absurdities like that. This is an epic, expensive looking, personal film by the anointed "best living Italian Director" which means a director that is marketable in other countries, specially USA. I can predict that Americans will love "Baaria" in spite of the red flags and the romantic view of communism. They know that school of thought is by now as anachronistic as a typewriter and just as harmless. The leads are played by two scrumptious new stars and from the collection of cameos I took away with me Angela Molina and Lina Sastri remain vividly in my mind.
- carladionizi
- Oct 8, 2009
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- Also known as
- Baarìa: Amor y Pasión
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- Budget
- €28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $16,017,513
- Runtime2 hours 43 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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