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Review: Picturesque, Patience Testing 'The Italian Key'
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There are moments, while watching a movie for the first time, when you feel like your attention span is being stretched. It's normal, it happens all the time, and in this day and age it's more rare if you're not thinking about five things at once than if you're just thinking about one or two. Roger Ebert once said that a sign of a truly great film is when it makes you completely forget about everything, and glues you to the screen from start to finish. It's great when you feel truly invested in the story, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop you from watching how it ends. On the other hand, some movies make you wish for just about any kind of disaster – electrical power failures, building fires, hurricanes – to stop you from getting to the end. Yes, some movies stretch the attention span as if it »
- Nikola Grozdanovic
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