The Tearsmith
The Tearsmith
The Tearsmith (Lacrimosa) – The sultry Italian gothic film, is based on the haunting fantasy novel Fabbricante di Lacrime by Erin Doom. Cinematography has made efforts and into bringing this book series to Netflix Original movie with all mysterious orphans, shady orphanages, dark secrets and powerful unseen force everywhere.
Simone Baldasseroni stars as Rigel and Caterina Ferioli plays Nica. She is joined in the honey bun team by actors Sabrina Paravicini, Alessandro Bedetti and Roberta Rovelli and director Alessandro Genovesi.
The Tearsmith begins with Grave an orphanage which is dark and filled with creepy myths of the Tearsmith a maker of fears who has been instrumental in bringing all the human fears into creation. However, 17 years old Nica has to part with Grave and its stories when she finally gets adopted by affectionate Milligans.
Sadly, she has to accommodate another Grave orphan who she suspects to be the Tearsmith, Rigel. They both detest each other, but due to the same traumatic past of being orphans, they find themselves drawn to one another. And of course, the unspoken attraction is not a good factor in such situations!
The Tearsmith is a nice gorge romance for Gen Alpha, like Twilight for it and who knows maybe it will get a make-over in ten years, but now is just very corny. The audience will have to bear in mind that throughout the movie, some level of disbelief will have to be constantly maintained even with the great amount of over-the-top theatrics of the main two leads, silly names such as moth and the looking that tries to say “He looks into my soul” kind of love story scenes.
There is too much revealing of skin which is not even necessary for the story, moody brooding and quotes which appeared as if they were cut out of a tumblr post and were completely irrelevant to the story. And when we don’t have that, contain that sigh of relief because then say hi to the painfully useless dialogues which form most of the rest of the film.
The soundtrack is salubrious and it fits the movie’s setting quite well, however, it is misplaced. It is quite alright to have moments in the videos which do not have any songs guys! The structure is interesting, give credit when it is due, and also the fact that the tale begins right in the middle and has a lot of flashbacks to justify why the two girls were in the orphanage and what terrible ordeals they went through there.
Sadly, the writers seem to have quite simply escaped this issue by having their characters do incessant voiceovers and narration. Since when has it been show don’t tell? Additionally, the film just continues establishing and establishing and forcing in so much exposition whilst there is really no significant action in the movie. The last quarter builds to this, in a tiny step forward; although it is not indeed worth the wait.
Inadequate nudity that has no relevance to the story, sadness in addressing dialogue, smart-one-liner dialogue that looks like it was cut from a piece of writing in a Tumblr, and in the film’s running storyline makes no tangible sense. And when we don’t have that, hold that sigh of relief cause say hello to the cheesy dialogues that make up the rest of the movie.
The music is quite well selected with folk-pop and rock influences but it feels misplaced. It’s cool to have silence at some occasions, for goodness sakes! The form is amusing and the story is well able to earn some praise as it starts in the middle of the action and then attempts to explain with flashbacks, the horrible histories of the two main characters, when they were in the orphanage.
Writers are fine with voiceovers and narrators thus have avoided challenges that lead to creativity. And, what about the principle of ‘show, don’t tell’? Besides, the film just goes on and goes on introducing and introducing and introducing and adding plethora of back-story without any real significant action taking place. Ill admit we do get some of this in the second half of the movie, but, its not worth the wait.
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- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Country: United States
- Director: Alessandro Genovesi
- Cast: Simone Baldasseroni, Caterina Ferioli, Sabrina Paravicini
