The Sixth Sense (1999) – Review by Andrea Carnevali
The Sixth Sense ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I remember listening to an interview from Toni Colette, who plays the mother here, talking about this film and stating that she only realised it was […]
Andrea Carnevali is a Bafta award winning film maker who lives in Chiswick. Some will know him as the parent at St Mary’s Primary School who organised the green wall, but when he’s not doing that he’s producing, directing and editing documentaries such as Who do you think you are? For the BBC and other programmes for ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Discovery and Netflix.
Born in Milan, Italy, he studied in Rome before moving to London in 1991, where he's been living since. He graduated at the London Film School as a writer, producer and director. After working for 15 years at the BBC, he set up his own company Storylines Production in 2017.
In January 2020 he set himself the goal of watching and reviewing a film a day. He’s not quite achieved that, but almost. You can see all his reviews on his Facebook page #amovieaday. The Chiswick Calendar started publishing them in November 2021.
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Andrea says he doesn’t claim to be a writer, nor does he expect people who read his reviews to agree with him on everything:
“That’s the beauty of cinema: we all see different things at different times (some of my favourite films are ones that I hated the first time around). But I can promise you one thing: I’ll be honest. I’ll just talk about movies because I love watching them. I hope you can join me in watching them too”.
Editor Bridget Osborne says:
“I find Andrea’s reviews very refreshing. They are passionate, intelligent and knowledgeable without being pretentious. I have seen some great films I would have missed and avoided some tedious and disappointing ones I might otherwise have sat through by reading his reviews. I find myself agreeing with him most of the time”.
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