Very good movie, fantastic love story, but also boring.

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2019)

After only seeing one good movie during 2019 (Captain Marvel) and having nothing to do I started to check Oscars winners and I stumbled across this gem which I strangely ended up really liking. This is a very good movie!
I thought this would be one of the worst movies I would ever see - it is a love story about gayness, Oscars winner, so of course this will be pretentious crap and political correctness stupidity right? Some Jewish family in Italy get a visit from a older gay guy that seduce the young "boy", so of course this is some pro pedo movie only loved by Joe Biden and James Gunn, right?
So wrong, I was so wrong. What I thought would be a bad movie I would laugh at and give a bad grade, ended up surprising me like few other movies have. I could not be happier of being so wrong. Well, perhaps "happy" is not the right word, because this is also heartbreaking on several levels.
Let me start with the bad of this movie.
The music is atrocious. It sort of fits, mostly, but it is not good, and sometimes even awful.
A few scenes drag out a little too much - the movie is pretty long for this type of movie, and it get a bit boring, especially during the (sort of) 2nd act. This movie do not really have act´s, which fits the story, but it lacks that normal flow we as movie goers are used to, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but I think they drag it out too much. This could easily have been cut down 15-20 min, and the movie would have been better for it.
And for those of you looking for a LGBT movie with lots of political correctness to love (or hate) you will be disappointed. This is a love story, and it does not matter what gender they have or who they are, the story is what matters, and although everyone do a great job acting out that story it is the story, the very, very well written story that is the gem here.
Which means this is not a political statement, this is not promoting gayness or anything of the sort, which probably will disappoint a few, but for me this was so refreshing so it is a positive.
And finally there are a few moments, especially in the long dragged out parts, that I think the directing could have been better. Don´t get me wrong, I think the director did a great job with this movie, but a few more cuts, and a few scenes that could have been shot better - since the script is so amazingly good, those directorial misses stand out.
The god is literary everything else. I already mention the story, but it cannot be stressed enough. This has to be one of the best screenplays ever written - apparently based on a book that I have never read. The setting of the movie great, the acting amazing, almost everything in this movie breathes and show emotion in a way few movies do. The love story is brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Few movies have captured my heart as much as this movie did, and the movie is about two Jewish men in Italy doing gay stuff, how did that happen? Why do I like this movie so much? Not sure, but as mentioned before, the script and the love story is fantastic and cannot be praised enough.
I give this movie a 8/10. A strong 8. The reason why I do not go higher is because the movie drag too much, and the music bugged the hell out of me. This is such a great movie, but if the director had fixed a few scenes, cut perhaps 15 min or run-time and got better music to enhance the feeling of the film; then this could very well have been one of the best movies of all time. It really is that good.
I do think you should either see this movie alone or as a couple. As a straight middle-age man thinking I´d see a politically correct gayness bonanza, I was crying and living this movie. But this love story man, oh man... If you have a partner or a girlfriend or whatnot, this will likely also be for you. If you are a bunch of friends looking for a nice entertaining movie; well, this might not be for you.
With those impasses, I highly recommend this movie. Surprisingly great!