Quite original, highly improbable and curiously cool.

Even if Tornatore were deliberately aiming for the artificiality that clings to nearly every frame, the pic would still feel needlessly airless, hampered by an Italian-to-English script translation that may be precise but lacks naturalism.

A shallow and unbearably boring romantic thriller from Tornatore. [Full review in Spanish]

La Corrispondenza’s plot could be seen as either ludicrous or touching, but the fact remains that the film runs out of ideas soon after it starts.