The Florentine (film)

The Florentine is a 1999 film directed by Nick Stagliano and produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope.[1] It stars Jeremy Davies,Michael Madsen, and Chris Penn.

This article is about the 1999 film. For other uses, see Florentine (disambiguation).
The Florentine
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNick Stagliano
Written byTom Benson
Damien Gray
Produced byFrancis Ford Coppola
Nick Stagliano
Steven Weisman
Starring
CinematographyStephen Kazmierski
Edited byPlummy Tucker
Music byMarco Beltrami
Production
companies
American Zoetrope
Nazz Productions
Distributed byNew Films International
Release date
  • April 19, 1999 (1999-04-19) (Los Angeles Independent Film Festival)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film was shot in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania in the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and in the Lehigh Valley borough of Hellertown.

Cast

Reception

With a conspicuous heart on its sleeve, "The Florentine" can't break away from its verbose theatrical origins. Helmed by multifaceted industry vet Nick Stagliano, this paean to small-town American values is painfully earnest and determinedly old-fashioned in style and themes. While it's raised above the norm by a cast full of thesp heavyweights, pic is ultimately undone by a distracting spread of novelistic story strands and a deadly, repetitive series of two-character dialogue scenes. A distrib may end up going for this quaint, besotted bit of Americana, but the gabfest will be restricted to English-only markets, with betterafterlife on vid.

— Variety

[2]

References
  1. LoBrutto, Vincent; Morrison, Harriet R. (2012). The Coppolas: A Family Business. ABC-CLIO. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-313-39161-3.
  2. Koehler, Robert (May 3, 1999). "The Florentine". Variety.


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