Emilia Clarke

Marton Csokas

Caterina Murino

Remo Girone

Lisa Gastoni

Edward Dring

Duccio Camerini

Nicole Cadeddu

Antonella Britti

Giampiero Judica

Kate Linder

Dean Zanuck

Eric D. Howell

Stefano Gallini-Durante

Davide De Stefano

Silvio Raffo

Michael Brickman

Andrew Shaw

Clayton Condit

Anna Lombardi

Tannaz Anisi

Cynthia Sleiter

Lilia Trapani

Amy Lee

Scott Fischer

Franco Maria Salamon

Drew Sondeland

David Farmer

Virginia Cefaly

Emiliano Bambusi

Mona Bernal

Jason Lisenbee

Marco Valerio Pugini

Sandra Siegal

Carl N. Jacobs

Sandro Piccarozzi

Ben Watne

Philippe Antonello

Roy Bava

Daniele Di Biasio

Luca John Rosati

Gary Rizzo

Alessandro Brambilla

Jean Johnson

Carla Vicenzino

Gustavo Borner

Bruce Johnson

Alessia Silvetti

Steve Benvenuto

Cody Lee Brown

Tamara Marini

Catia Pasqualoni

Maurizio Benvenuto

Marco Sacerdoti

Andrea Tolomei

Warren Ostergard

Fabiomassimo Dell'Orco

David Stephan

Pasquale Di Viccaro

Jesse Pelkey

Tom Hambleton

Chris Rainey

Andrea Melchiorre

Melissa Mazzocco

Andrew Sagar

Ryan Markley

Francesco Zaccaria

Enrico Latella

Mark Wheaton

Claudia Catini

Vincenzo Nardi

Susie Bench

Francisco Pintore

Maurizio Argentieri

Stuart McCowan

Martino Tagliaferri

Marco Tosti

Nick Gumm

Victoria Harms

Álvaro Cadavid

Christopher M. Foster

Blair Hahn

Simona Batistelli

Giuseppe Santoni

Ute Leonhardt

Michael Wandmacher

Peter Simonite

Danielle Dupre

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**The transformation!!!**

It is a little confusing. I don't think everybody who saw it understood at the first attempt. Otherwise, it would have not received such a low rating. The film failed to give the explanations in an understandable way. Only if you are good enough to figure it out everything by yourself like by observing the characteristic behaviours, dialogues and scenes that including illusion/dreams, then it can be considered a good one. So, comparing to the book it was based on, I don't know if the book complicates its readers the same way.

In the opening, a mother breathes her last before taking an oath from his not to speak a word till she returns. Very unusual scene, because she died by the side of her son and nobody else present, like her husband. Then a new nurse arrives to take care of him. She was confident that she can make him talk again, but later she begins to know more about the place and the people. Unexplainable things happen. Well, the film says it all, but it's hard for us to get the details. Following, a twist comes, then everything back to normal, like nothing ever happened.

All the actors were okay. I particularly watched it for Emilia Clarke. I loved the location, the atmosphere. Not a typical seaside sunny Italian place, but shot at the misty medieval house. In the beginning I thought it was like another version of 'Miracle Worker'. In the midway, I thought of 'Hidden Face'. None were right. But I only got it when I googled about it after the watch and realised there was no dream sequences at all, especially coming to the climax part. All are real, and which is a twist.

Maybe it need to be watched twice, particularly after googling about what part you did not get. So it was like 'Skeleton Key' meets 'Safe Haven'. I don't want to say anything further to spoil your watch if you're yet to see it. Just watch it and make your own opinion whether you liked it or not, but try to understand it first what happens at the end. Now I've changed my rating slightly, yet the film was so old fashioned. If it had came a couple of decades ago, would have considered a best one. There are people who love such film, even today, like maybe the old guys. So it is for the selected people.

_5.5/10_