IL POSTINO
Italy 1995 col 35mm 108 mins
Dir: Michael Radford
Pho : Franco di Giacomo
Music : Luis Enrique Bacalov
Cast : Massimo Triosi,Philp Noiret ,Maria Grazia
A bitter-sweet tale of love iginited by the power and passion of Pablo Neruda's timeless poetry. Unlike his fellow villagers, Mario is not cut out for his life as a fisherman. Instead , he becomes the postman on a beautiful island. His round consists of the only literate person there, the exciled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. a friendship develops between the two men, and Mario is soon asking Neruda for advice on how to court the voluptuous young barmaid Beatriz, with whom he has fallen in love. As Neruda tutors him, Mario dsicovers that he too has a gift for poetry. The island air soon resonates to the exchange of sensuous metaphors.
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