I'm Not Scared (US Version) DVD Region 1

Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and running through the wheat fields. In fact, the wheat could be considered Michele's costar, as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen, showing how Michele plays, hides, and ponders life in the vast expanses of flowing yellow stalks. Because there are only a few other children in the village, Michele often plays alone, and one day he discovers a hole in the ground, obscured by wheat, where a boy his age is chained and imprisoned. The boy has clearly been starved and mistreated, yet Michele approaches him fearlessly and attempts to make friends with him. With the dreaminess that is a 10-year-old's truest treasure, Michele doesn't ask too many questions, nor does he draw conclusions about why the boy is in the hole, or who put him there. Through the expressions on young Michele's face, viewers can read his light questioning of human existence, human morality, and human rights. However, as the film draws on, subtly revealing shocking secrets about the adults in Michele's village, the beauty of this utterly simple yet deadly powerful plot come clear. I'M NOT SCARED is a moving film built on crystal-clear images of the Italian sun, sky, and wheat fields; strangely offset by its startling loss-of-innocence story.

"With a taste for dark lyricism, the director delicately emphasizes the contrast between surface innocence." - Lisa, Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 04/16/2004

"The golden desolation of summer wheat fields in southern Italy is filmed with such visual intensity in the thriller I'M NOT SCARED that its brilliance is almost blinding." - Stephen, Holden (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 04/09/2004

"I'M NOT SCARED, as beautiful as it is disturbing, is an acutely perceptive study of character, as revealed in relations between children and especially between children and adults." - Kevin, Thomas (Film critic), Los Angeles Times, 04/09/2004

"[H]auntingly beautiful....The cinematography is reminiscent of Terence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN." - Claudia, Puig (USA TODAY CRITIC), USA Today, 04/09/2004

"I'M NOT SCARED is a reminder of true childhood, of its fears and speculations..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 04/23/2004

"Not since CHILDREN OF THE CORN have fields of grain done so much for a thriller." - Premiere Staff (Premiere Staff), Premiere, 12/01/2004

"Leisurely paced thriller with a nostalgic streak." - Peter, Hogan (Uncut Critic), Uncut, 01/01/2005

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Product Title:	I'm Not Scared (US Version) I'm Not Scared (US Version) I'm Not Scared (US Version) I'm Not Scared (US Version) I'm Not Scared (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Giuseppe Cristiano (Actor) | Mattia Di Pierro (Actor) | Niccolo Ammaniti | Sergio Castellitto (Actor) | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (Actor) | Riccardo Tozzi (Actor) | Giorgio Careccia (Actor) | Dino Abbrescia (Actor) 皆斯彼基斯甸奴 (Actor) | Mattia Di Pierro (Actor) | Niccolo Ammaniti | 卡斯迪里圖 (Actor) | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (Actor) | Riccardo Tozzi (Actor) | Giorgio Careccia (Actor) | Dino Abbrescia (Actor) Giuseppe Cristiano (Actor) | Mattia Di Pierro (Actor) | Niccolo Ammaniti | 卡斯迪里图 (Actor) | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (Actor) | Riccardo Tozzi (Actor) | Giorgio Careccia (Actor) | Dino Abbrescia (Actor) Giuseppe Cristiano (Actor) | Mattia Di Pierro (Actor) | Ｎｉｃｃｏｌｏ Ａｍｍａｎｉｔｉ | Sergio Castellitto (Actor) | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (Actor) | Riccardo Tozzi (Actor) | Giorgio Careccia (Actor) | Dino Abbrescia (Actor) Giuseppe Cristiano (Actor) | Mattia Di Pierro (Actor) | Niccolo Ammaniti | Sergio Castellitto (Actor) | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (Actor) | Riccardo Tozzi (Actor) | Giorgio Careccia (Actor) | Dino Abbrescia (Actor)
Director:	Gabriele Salvatores 加布里埃薩爾瓦托 Gabriele Salvatores Gabriele Salvatores Gabriele Salvatores
Producer:	Sergio Castellitto | Riccardo Tozzi | Giorgio Careccia | Dino Abbrescia | Renato Marchetti 卡斯迪里圖 | Riccardo Tozzi | Giorgio Careccia | Dino Abbrescia | Renato Marchetti 卡斯迪里图 | Riccardo Tozzi | Giorgio Careccia | Dino Abbrescia | Renato Marchetti Sergio Castellitto | Riccardo Tozzi | Giorgio Careccia | Dino Abbrescia | Renato Marchetti Sergio Castellitto | Riccardo Tozzi | Giorgio Careccia | Dino Abbrescia | Renato Marchetti
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Release Date:	2005-07-03
UPC Code:	786936259490
Language:	English, Italian
Country of Origin:	Italy
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Package Weight:	95 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004386430

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - (unspecified)