Mr. Cinderella
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer helping the inmates — however, like a modern-day Cinderella, every day he must leave and be back to his cell before midnight... will they manage to live happily ever after?
Our read · Mr. Cinderella (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Mr. Cinderella
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a fun Italian romantic comedy with a modern Cinderella twist and prison deadline.”
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The reading.
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