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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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Looking back with a sentimental eye and a generous budget doesn't guarantee a masterpiece and in fact "Baaria" is not a masterpiece, but it manages to be a lot of other things and when I say a lot a mean an awful lot, too much perhaps. The ambition of the enterprise clashes with its clarity, its accomplishment even with its honesty. I've spent 10 critical years of my childhood in Sicily and the Sicily depicted here, beauty an all, felt like the work of a foreigner. This is a Sicily for exportation or, the Sicily of a dreamer with a very acute cinematic eye. Not the Sicily of Visconti's "La Terra Trema" to be sure but perhaps Tornatore's way is a cleverer way to go about it. This is a exemplary crafted "product". It doesn't have the depth of real art nor its purity. It has, however, a great show of confidence in itself. Beautiful images, beautiful protagonists, beautiful score. The toothless smiles of the under proletarians the color coordinated attire of the rich, everything in place just the way we imagine. To say that I was disappointed wouldn't be quite true, in fact, I enjoyed it much more that I thought I would, but now, twenty four hours later, very little of it remains in my mind or in my heart.
- giorgiosurbani
- Sep 2, 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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