Baaria (2009)

Giuseppe "Cinema Paradiso" Tornatore's Golden Globe-nominated epic is grand in its ambition and abysmally abject in its execution. As derivative as the director's Oscar-winning cheese-fest-homage to cinema, Baaria is so inept at telling an interesting story from all the calamitous events that Italy has gone through in the 20th century, somebody should just stop him from making these films.

This is the story of Peppino, from his precocious childhood, through his courtship of the improbably beautiful Mannina in his youth, his entry into the Communist Party, and his older years as a respected town councilman.