Italian Studies Reviews
I don't really know what they're aiming for here... There needs to be a point to why we're telling this particular story in this particular way.
| Jan 26, 2022
It's only 81 minutes long but feels like an eternity or two.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2022
Its idea of time is multidimensional, as is its idea of form.
| Jan 19, 2022
Adam Leon's brief, stylish film never fully unpacks its intriguing premise, but gains feeling and texture from Kirby's performance as a writer in a dissociative fugue.
| Jan 15, 2022
For a long stretch, Italian Studies turns this trip down memory-loss lane into a low-wattage livewire, an unpredictable stroll into the unknown.
| Jan 14, 2022
Mildly auspicious if ultimately disappointing.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2022
" a unique curio of a film, a free sketch of time and place melting into a singular subjective experience that asks "does memory matter?" Perhaps, it does not."
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2022
During an amnesiac's atmospheric nighttime ramble through Manhattan, the seeds of a narrative are sewn but never nurtured.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 9, 2022
What's most distinctive about writer/director Adam Leon's spacey NYC drama is its total lack of structure. Jean-Luc Godard fans will be pleased. Others maybe not.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2021
The looseness that worked so well in Leon's earlier films here just feels slack and empty.
| Jun 15, 2021
The barrier between the real and the fictional encounters is increasingly permeable, as is the line between social norms and unacceptable behaviour, in this freewheeling, spontaneous voyage into the unknown.
| Jun 15, 2021
Kirby is so magnetic and half-opened as a woman who's forgotten everything besides her own force of will that no one will ever second-guess why Leon agreed to work with her before he even had an idea of what they would make together.
| Original Score: B- | Jun 15, 2021