Probably the most emotional movie I have ever seen.

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2016)

This was such perfection!
Let me tell you why. Because this movie is simple. This movie shows you life as it happens, with its deceptions, its weaknesses, its greatness in its simple things, its regrets, its glory. It is just as we live it.
Fred Ballinger is a retired orchestra director, on a holiday in the Alpes. He is there with his friend of a lifetime, Mick, and with his daughter. He is a man who has done many mistakes in his life, he might not have been the perfect husband or father, as we see through his daughter's perception, but he is a great spirit, an educated and profound spirit, who has no better chance than accepting his present. There is not so much action, there are no special things going on, but there are dialogs, that will make you have an introspection after you have watched the movie, there is a special technique in how certain scenes are shot, there is art there!
The soundtrack is fabulous, perfectly accompanying the emotional trip, one can see the talent of the people involved in this project. It is by far my dearest movie, I would recommend it only for those of you who want to see something else than pure action going on with no substance. This movie is not for the impatient ones, it is for finding yourselves, your deepest and more hidden, more buried regrets or fulfillment, your other self, the ones you've hardly knew or even wanted to get to know. This movie is my top 5 list of all the time movies, it broke my heart and, at the same time, it filled my heart with joy! You'll understand these strange and contradictory affirmations after having watched it. It made me cry at the end, such a special movie, thank you, Sorrentino, thank you!