Poco più di un anno fa 2003

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: [Marco Filiberti] has lots on his mind and much in his heart, and as a filmmaker displays a Douglas Sirkian flair for finding substance in melodrama. Read more

Robert Abele, L.A. Weekly: This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: There is little for an American audience to adore about the film's star- writer-director Marco Filiberti, a breathtakingly self-idolatrous artist who makes Roberto Benigni look like an avatar of humility. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit. Read more

Jonathan Foreman, New York Post: Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American 'gaysploitation' cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Judging by Adored, the Italian singer, actor and filmmaker Marco Filiberti has the healthiest ego in Europe, if not the known universe. Read more

John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle: This clumsy, self-indulgent film veers from comedy to tragedy and is told in flashbacks, with treacly diary entries and unconvincing 'testimonies' from friends providing a window into the past. Read more

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Ed Halter, Village Voice: The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Read more