Film: 18 Presents
Starring: Vittoria Puccini, Benedetta Porcaroli, Edoardo Leo, Sara Lazzaro, Marco Messeri, Betty Pedrazzi, Alessandro Giallocosta, Filippo Gili, Giacomo Rosselli
Director: Francesco Amato
Rating: ***
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - '18 Presents' is an Italian enlivened by-a-genuine story show on Netflix. The trailer will disclose you that it's about a pregnant mother with a hopeless sickness who plans 18 presents for the initial 18 years of her unborn little girl's life. You might be imagining that plot would battle to fill a full length runtime. Somehow you are right.
Review - Because of her mom, Elisa, kicking the bucket that day she was conceived, Anna has felt like something was absent in her life. And keeping in mind that her dad, Alessio, extraordinarily ventured up, it appears without the maternal figure Anna wanted, cynicism and a huge number of negative emotions flourished. Include, every year, Anna got a blessing that increasingly more helped her to remember distinction among her and her mom, the passing of Elisa just made more indignation and ill will. In any case, on her eighteenth birthday celebration, while attempting to flee from the world, she winds up in auto crash. Said mishap sends her back to 2001, 3 months before her mom's passing, and permits her to become more acquainted with her mom while attempting her best to manage her mom's destiny.
It's ideal to go into 18 Presents not thinking a lot about the plot. In the event that you can, don't watch the trailer and go in aimlessly as this causes the charming reason to putrefy and keep you speculating over what will occur next for a decent part of the film. For spoiler purposes I won't uncover what occurs. however, while some probably won't take to the exciting bends in the road en route, personally I very appreciated the distinctive interpretation of this story yet, it surely won't be for everybody.
The fantasy associations between a youthful Anna and something likened to her mom's apparition are really splendid. The time-travel plot prompts some loop mysteries in which something that Anna learns later on motivates Elisa's blessing thought before or the other way around. But these oddities are definitely not a sensible worry for coherence nit-pickers; they're taken care of beautifully to purposely make no sense, and are brimming with poignancy, nostalgia, and feeling.
The basic subjects of the film are, true to form, parenthood which is all around portrayed and growing up without a mother for Anna has surely been testing. She has also been battling to grapple with praising her birthday events around the same time her mom died. To her, the presents are a token of that missing nearness in her life and as she's adult, she's become more frustrated. While Anna is grown very well, and has a steady account curve over the image, Anna's dad's story isn't given a similar treatment and could have finished with being somewhat more evolved after he lost his better half.
However, it ought to be noticed that the soundtrack for the wistful meat of the film, the connection among Elisa and Anna, there is a wonderful piano score that impeccably praises and enlarges the activity, so, everything isn't lost on the music front.18 Presents is an odd film in that it may not get an especially high star rating, however it's regardless a suggested watch. In spite of the fact that it's not well polished, it is ardent and elevating, and where here and there things don't gel together especially well, the stand-apart minutes are only that-stick out, important, and phenomenal.
Final Word - 18 Presents gives a unique interpretation of its passionate premise. The film is simple and fascinating to watch and ought to get you snared at an opportune time. The film can gift you some highly sentiment memories.
