Although a film of little children with youngsters in the lead, the chief one being no more than nine years old, this is hardly a film for little children. Walt Disney's first full length cartoon films like "Snowhite" and "Pinocchio" were notorious for scaring children out of their wits and giving them perpetual nightmares, although these masterpieces of children's films are made for no other audience, and this film is related to that kind. Young Frankie is almost constantly scared out of his mind because of what he experiences with weird ghosts of spooky lovely ladies in white waving clothes, like angels, and someone unknown actually trying to murder him for nothing as it seems, and that is just the beginning of his ordeals. The film is beautifully well done, you might question the verisimilitude of the plot, but the interesting thing is that the film is made with the mentality of a child and just as the child would have experienced all these things. The acting is wonderful especially on the part of young Lukas Haas, the camera work is brilliant and the cinematography is impressing, and to all this also comes a refreshing taint of good Italian humour. This is a film very difficult not to surrender to.
Review of Lady in White
