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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0758445902020
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 100992
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
When Gilda Mattei’s father dies, she is left with nothing but her video camera, her father’s secrets, and a fascination with a movie star named Michael DeSantis. Using her camera as a diary, and propelled by grief and anger, Gilda sets off on an adventure in New York City. Ultimately, Gilda finds herself right in the middle of her movie star fantasies . . . and the true adventure begins.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Also shocked by such good reviews
I bought this movie on a whim, thinking I'd give it a try. I thought the backcover summary of the film, though cliche, looked promising as an interesting story. I was wrong. As I watched the movie, I kept waiting for it to get better and for something to happen. However, it did not. I actually found the heroine Gilda to be quite unlikeable. It was very difficult for me to feel any sympathy for her or to relate to her in the slightest. The way the movie was filmed is choppy, and it jumped about ... Read More
Rating:  - Surprised at the good reviews
I didn't like this story at all. Mostly because the story is a very old one... seen many times before. And also the camera style annoyed me. Basically we follow Gilda as she deals with her fathers illness, death, and learning of his affair with another woman. Gilda is already obsessed with an actor played by Chris Noth, but becomes increasingly so as she discovers truths about her father and family.
The style of the story is very haphazzard with lots of cuts and clips. Made it hard for me ... Read More
Rating: - gradually winning
an intriguing film that gradually envelops the viewer and takes one into the interesting and unpredictable mind of its protagonist. At first I thought this was gonna be another one of those now cliched movies that features a character making their own home movie and going nowhere fast. Fortunately, I was pulled into the somewhat disturbed and surreal psychology of this woman and her strange journey. The acting is admirable and one is left being moved by this charming and troubling visionary sojourn.
Rating: - Flawed and disturbing, yet beautifully executed
This film is impeccably put together, with a fine cast and excellent screenplay. The story combines humor (a young woman named Gilda is obsessed with a sexy older actor, and meanwhile engages in prickly schoolgirl interactions with her mother and grandmother) with pathos (the enormity of dealing with a parent's death). The dialogue rings true and the acting is uniformly inspired. There are some touching meditations on what it is to love a parent and on our relationships with the dead. There is the ... Read More
Rating: - Experimental Filmmaking at its Best
SEARCHING FOR PARADISE is an autobiographical story written and directed by the gifted Myra Paci. This film is an excellent example of just how fine Indies can be - taking risks on story, on actors, on the mechanics of filming techniques, on pacing, on music scoring, etc. Paci examines the life of Gilda (the superb Susan May Pratt) whose Italian father (Michele Placido in a stunning performance) loves her but leaves her in death to carry on his idiosyncratic view of romance. Gilda fantasizes about meeting ... Read More
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