Finally Dawn

2023

1h 48m

Drama

History

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42%

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12 Reviews

In 1950’s Cinecittà, a young girl becomes the lead in a journey of self-discovery through the course of one long, eventful night.

Maureen Lee Lenker

Entertainment Weekly

Finally Dawn is a surreal vision of coming-in-age via cinema, and [Lily] James fully sells the movie star mayhem at its center. But it can't overcome its meandering script and hollow depiction of the era.

Rated: C+

Sep 6, 2023

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Steph Green

indieWire

Saverio Costanzo seems to throw more and more ideas at the page with the growing desperation of adding new toppings to mask a bad pizza.

Rated: C-

Sep 3, 2023

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Caryn James

Hollywood Reporter

A flawed but impressive movie about movies.

Sep 1, 2023

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

A sprawling story of uncertain tone -- sometimes thrilled, sometimes appalled and sometimes as generally bewildered as nervous ingenue Mimosa.

Oct 31, 2023

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Rafaela Sales Ross

The Playlist

The Italian director chooses to enlist a series of shining American names to this multicultural affair, hanging his film by a thread on the fine line between European arthouse and American mainstream without ever committing to one side or the other.

Rated: D

Sep 3, 2023

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Jay Weissberg

The Film Verdict

with an absurdly didactic screenplay awash in multiple stereotypes, it falls short of its apparent influences (primarily Fellini and Sirk) and turns into a handsome old-fashioned drama with no resonance beyond the surface.

Sep 2, 2023

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Saverio Costanzo

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Lily James

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Rebecca Antonaci

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Joe Keery

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Rachel Sennott

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Alba Rohrwacher

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Synopsis

In 1950’s Cinecittà, a young girl becomes the lead in a journey of self-discovery through the course of one long, eventful night.

Director: Saverio Costanzo
Producer: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Gangarossa
Screenwriter: Saverio Costanzo
Genre: Drama, History
Original Language: Italian
Runtime: 1h 48m