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Primo Amore

2004, Movie, NR, 97 mins

Primo Amore: Review

Proof positive that writer-director Mateo Garrone's The Embalmer wasn't the product of a passing interest in depraved romantic obsession, his follow-up is an even darker descent into a love that's literally consuming itself. Vittorio (Vitaliano Trevisan) and Sonia (Michela Cescon) meet through a classified ad, and Sonia is obviously pleased by his austere good looks. But Vittorio, a goldsmith who fashions thin, Giacometti-esque figures, finds her healthy, 125-pound body too fleshy for his tastes. Once Sonia moves into his new house in the hills outside Verona — a forbidding tower that Rapunzel might have once called home — he begins monitoring her every bite. Read the complete review for Primo Amore