Haven't been to--yet alone posted on--this board in just over two years, and I'm astounded it's still alive and well.
I think that's a testament to not only the fine actors in THE BEST OF YOUTH but to the power of the film itself. It seems the characters are so compelling, and so able to get under our skins, that we simply HAVE to identify them with actors we already know and appreciate.
That said, I just saw Alessio Boni (Matteo) in his latest film, also a TV mini-series, but one that's going to be released in the US in a sadly truncated two-hour version, CARAVAGGIO. The film itself is just okay, even though the life of the painter is the stuff of high drama and even high adventure, but what struck me the most was that in this role, Boni, excellent as always, looks amazingly different.
Our disputes over whether he resembles Eastwood, Jackman, Van Damme, Caviezel or the friggin' goalie of the Italian soccer team are gonna be confounded by this new portrayal...'cause I swear that though I kept seeing bits of each of the above (well, maybe not the goalie), the American actor he MOST reminded me of in his portrayal of the turbulent, whore-loving, bisexual genius of light and shadow who changed the history of painting is a young Harvey Keitel! Go figure, huh?
You read it here. Now go forth and preach it!
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jerry4444
17 years ago
lol, i think matteo looks like hugh jackman too, especially in that movie that he starred with meg ryan, kate & leopold.
btw, jackman is an oz....
and was it giulia, the girl from the asylum? she looks like christina ricci....
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Marnye
16 years ago
IMHO Alessio Boni does look like a cross between a young Clint Eastwood and Hugh Jackman. But yes, he looks completely different in "Caravaggio", producers originally thought he was too handsome for the part, so he made himself less attractive, he wore brown lenses to hide his blue eyes, had a bigger/larger nose, darker eyebrows and something else.
As a European I don't like it when people always try to say European actors remind them of some US actors, but it's unavoidable since US actors are known all over the world, and sadly their European and equally talented (and sometimes more talented) European counterparts are not.
Alessio Boni and Sebastian Koch of "The Lives of others" should be international stars, they are as talented and good-looking as US "heartthrobs".
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