Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- melancholic
- sensual
- intense
- quiet evening
- relationship drama night
What critics said
Critics broadly found Penélope Cruz's emotionally committed performance to be the film's defining strength, despite mixed views of the drama as a whole.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Timoteo waits during his daughter Angela's brain surgery while recalling his affair with Italia.
Timoteo, an established surgeon, becomes passionately involved with Italia, a marginalized woman from the city slums.
The story unfolds through Timoteo's intimate recollection of his affair and passion while he confronts a family emergency.
Italia remains a haunting presence in Timoteo's memories as desire, guilt, and loss become inseparable.
Films like Don't Move, and why
The Bridges of Madison County
intimate relationship drama shaped by confession, memory, guilt, and emotionally fraught desire
Bitter Moon
passionate, psychologically intense romance centered on class difference and destructive longing
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
retrospective European drama examining marriage, infidelity, remorse, and unresolved emotional attachment
Damage
melancholic romance focused on memory, sexual obsession, and the consequences of betrayal
Movie Details
- Director
- Sergio Castellitto
- Release Date
- 2004-03-12
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 (304)
Cast
- Penélope Cruz
- Sergio Castellitto
- Claudia Gerini
- Angela Finocchiaro
- Marco Giallini
- Pietro De Silva
- Vittoria Piancastelli
- Elena Perino
- Renato Marchetti
- Gianni Musy
Common questions
- What is Don't Move about?
- A surgeon confronting his daughter's medical crisis is consumed by memories of a passionate affair that still governs his conscience.
- What is Don't Move like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Don't Move as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Don't Move violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Don't Move as mild.
- What did critics think of Don't Move?
- Critics broadly found Penélope Cruz's emotionally committed performance to be the film's defining strength, despite mixed views of the drama as a whole.
- Which films are like Don't Move?
- Films with a similar feel include The Bridges of Madison County, Bitter Moon, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Damage.
- How long is Don't Move?
- Don't Move runs 125 minutes.
