Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso (, , ) is a 1988 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
Plot
In 1988 Rome, Salvatore Di Vita, a famous film director, returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily, in thirty years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo was, Salvatore is unable to fall asleep and flashes back to his childhood.