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Illuminata
- Director: John Turturro
- Writer: Brandon Cole
- Producer: Randel Cole; Carol Cuddy
CGiii Comment
A ridiculous amount of edits and a ridiculous waste of time and talent.
It has some genuinely great moments - unfortunately, these are spaced too far apart to make any impact.
Yes, it is photographed fantastically but not good enough to outshine the wholly ponderous script with the lame in-jokes.
Wethinks Turturro's ego has overtaken itself - which should really piss off the audience because this is self-indulgent and pretentious film-making - how dare he think that people should pay to see this catastrophe.
FOUL.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents.
Cast & Characters
Leo Bassi as Beppo;
Henri Behar as Pitou;
Maurizio Benazzo as Passerby;
Fernando Bolles as Boy #2;
Katherine Borowitz as Rachel;
Jeff Braun as Duke;
David Cale as Journalist;
Georgina Cates as Simone;
Kenny Cranna as Scruffy man;
Beverly D'Angelo as Astergourd;
George DiCenzo as Jailor;
Timothy Doyle as Aristocrat #1;
Ben Gazzara as Old Flavio;
Alexander Goodwin as Crying boy;
Amo Gulinello as Pupo