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The Most Beautiful Film in Years, 28 April 2008
9/10
Author: fmfedericomanfredi from Italy

Astonishing!!! I 've seen this feature at Torino Film Festival last week. It's certainly the most beautiful film I've seen in many years. Wonderful script with fresh and smart dialogs, solid structure and several great stories that made me think quite a lot after the screening in a very unusual optimistic way. Outstanding, moving and fairly realistic performances by the whole cast (and they are about 40) Smart, wise and challenging directing putting the audience right in the center of the questions on the film, feeling so close to characters and in an amazing active role. Beautiful, plenty of different textures and colorful cinematography. Fresh and creative editing. Brilliants songs taking you to the right place always. The film has a lot of moving perfectly crafted scenes. It's the very first time a film moved me to tears in the present decade (maybe more) but there's a lot of fun inside the film also and you leave the theater feeling more freedom and wanting to chase your own piece of happiness. I must recommend this feature to everyone. Don't even think of missing Spinnin'.

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A beautiful and magical journey through human heart, 25 June 2008
9/10
Author: Alice Stillman from United States

I saw this feature at Boston MFA last month… What an experience!!! Absolutely outstanding!!! One of the most complex and solid scripts I've ever seen on screen. Strange but beautifully human characters told us a story about people chasing their small pieces of happiness. A whole bunch of remarkable and brave characters deliver the audience a delicious dish with all the ingredients to make you think about quite a number of important issues of modern life in many different points of view.

SPINNIN' is a honest but optimistic painting of the human heart. The characters say "Love has sharp edges. Wound keeps you alive." several times as a chorus. I agree from the bottom of my heart, but, like "some kind of magic" you leave the cinema wanting to chase your own dreams, having a more optimistic way to look the rest of the human kind and hoping to enjoy the next relationship whatever it takes.

Alternately amusing and poignant. SPINNIN' is a beautiful mix of hard situations making people cry and smartly funny scenes making people laugh a lot with surprisingly ingenous ideas. (Maybe too many for 110 minutes). A whirlwind of emotions, delightful scenes with wonderfully written dialogs and amazing performances for the whole cast.

The stories are told in a charming cheeky way keeping you so close to the characters and making real easy to identify with them and their problems. Stunning images and a beautiful soundtrack, plenty of envolving and rocking songs, dress the salad.

I must confess that I'd never thought about fatherhood among gay men as an appropriate condition. Watching SPINNIN' I realize for the very first time how normal, "natural" and appropriate it can be.

I definitely agree, nobody should miss SPINNIN'. It's real quality material and one of the most enjoyable experiences in that last years cinema.

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Inept, 11 April 2008
2/10
Author: (ihspam-1) from Australia

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I saw this film in a festival and I have to say it was one of the most annoying films I have seen for a while, and I am including student works which I see on a regular basis.

Why? For a start, the subtitles were all over the shop. Sometimes in the widescreen black, sometimes on the picture itself. Sometimes the spelling was incorrect, sometimes it was obviously all a bit hard and the subtitles were just not there at all. The projectionist was forced to show the film quite far off centre vertically so that some of them could be read at all.

The music choice was terrible, and childishly handled. No fades, no sound bridging, just starts and stops. In the scene where the young girl dances for the young boy at the party she was obviously dancing to a completely different piece of music. He could of at least chosen something with a similar beat and feel. In some dance sections you could hear the director calling out the moves to the cast.

The script was awful. He seemed to think that if you throw in a couple of weird moments, it would make the film enigmatic. In fact, it was just annoying and pointless.

As an editor, I was driven to actually groan a couple of times at the disastrous unmotivated editing.

I could go on. There was plenty wrong with this film, but at about the three quarter mark I realised that it must have a redeeming last two minutes, which has made it popular at festivals, and I wasn't willing to let something like that make me forgive the previous 108 minutes of crap. So I left.

Perhaps if the guy who wrote it hadn't also produced, directed, cast, shot, recorded the sound and edited it, someone on the crew could have pointed out his problems.

So I'm calling it unmitigated rubbish. And the reason I'm so angry about it is that I'm sick of the fact that any film that discusses AIDS or gay parenting seems to be instantly forgiven all its technical disasters. I don't think it's good enough. Our stories deserve better.

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