Reality And Romantic "duet"

Giuseppe Tornatore,who was born in Sicilian,Italy,in May,27th,1956,was known as the most famous film director by his cinema paradise and Malena. Tornatore is not anxious to achieve quick success on creative work,his movies are all shown after long preparation period. The latest"Baaria"was shown as opening film on the66th Venice film festival. The mix of realism and romantic is notable style of his works. This article aims to explore the double style from the theme,characters and artistic features.On the theme,realism theme is expressed by unique political status and social problems of Italy and psychic reality of characters,and romantic theme is expressed by nostalgia homesickness and love story.On the characters,two kinds of characters all exist,both man whose fate controled by surroundings, independent women in modern society and1900who contributed himself to ideal,Malena whose good looking moved everyone.In adition, some people with double character also exist.On the artistic features, the writer analyses how the double style hignlighted by the narrative means, the lens performance and modeling of sound. At the last chapter,the write analyses the reason of the double style.