Salvatore Cascio and Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso courtesy Miramax Films
A movie about growing up at the movies she-demons vs holy man a time-travel comedy and moreQuestion I love reading your weekly column and know youll be able to help me I cant remember the name of an Italian movie I saw in the late 1980s or early 90s Its about a boy growing up in a small village he spends a lot of time at the cinema and the man who runs it becomes a father figure to him The church requires that the man cut out any kissing scenes before the movies are shown and the boy is always trying to look at the deleted scenes which the man keeps in a box Lots of stuff I dont remember happens in the middle but the boy grows up and I think he becomes a filmmaker When the old man dies the boy now a man returns to the village and finds that the man spliced together all the kissing scenes to create a movie and left it for him I remember it being a very moving story and would like to share it with my friends but I dont remember the title and I did
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