The Last Kiss (Full Screen Edition)

Buy This Item The Last Kiss (Full Screen Edition)  List Price: $14.98  Available from Amazon  $13.49  on 11-28-2008     Features Actors: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston Directors: Tony Goldwyn Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Language: English Subtitles: English, Spanish Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: Studio: Dreamworks Video DVD Release Date: December 26, 2006 Run Time: 103 minutes Average Customer Review:   86 Reviews 5 star:  (28) 4 star:  (14) 3 star:  (15) 2 star:  (9) 1 star:  (20) See all 86 customer reviews...   (86 customer reviews) Reader Reviews This review is from: The Last Kiss (Widescreen Edition) (DVD) This is a dramatic piece originally written and directed by Gabriele Muccino under the title "The Last Kiss" (2001). A blockbuster in Italy and a much more intense and revealing experience than this Hollywood counterpart by Tony Goldwyn, who seems to have a penchant for appropriating scripts (million dollar baby and Crash) and legitimizing the depth that is therein displayed. Needless to say in this adaptation - however direct transliteral carbon-copy may be a more accurate description - something is lost. The cultural translation works only within a limited dress, disguising inability to commit with what may be "existential angst" in full swing. The Italian version adds intensity where the DreamWorks production carries a blunt tenderness, neither convincing nor endearing, but always aptly dramatized. The casting is excellent as we've come to expect of all of Tricia Wood's engagements, with Zach Braff and Jacinta Barrett and Rachel Bilson in leading roles supported with a surplus of talent in minor agents of definite weight. This movie is well-constructed and racy in an intellectual and sensual sense. What happened to the screams into the void, the cries for more and the desperation for meaning that afflicted the characters in "L'Ultimo Bacio" and seems to be an afterthought in a redrafted tale about the fragility of the psyche and the crass expectations we feel obliged to meet and rejoice within. Something is lost in the translation, but the undercurrents are aflowing with enough force to warrant watching and perhaps even comparing. If you are verging on 30 and thinking about getting married you'll end up getting stuck in a nostalgic disoriented displaced mood. If you are a woman you'll wonder why the male presence overarches the female roles, with the answer being a cultural one. In Italy this is a "Guy-flick". In other words: a night out with the guys so as to vent, let go and recharge, similar to the much maligned chick-flick category, but more of a phenomena with depth of extra human proportions. Not possible in the US (I apologize for the generalizing vein I force here). To make it simple for the simple "if you liked Garden State you'll love The Last Kiss." If you are not afraid of pinching the reflective chords within so as to stir the inevitable emotional instability we must confront on occasions lest we just follow the crowd and get lost in the shuffle, then watch it and enjoy, or better yet buy the original version (on sale on Amazon too) and challenge your intellectual sensibilities in an honest commercial effort, satisfactory and satisfying.  Comment | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

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