Scent of a Woman (1992)

The best role of Al Pacino's career, in my opinion surpassing the one he played in the overrated "The Godfather" saga (in my humble opinion).

A lieutenant colonel who has retired due to an accident that caused him total and permanent blindness lives, consumed by bitterness, in the house of his niece, who has taken him in.

A pre-university boy with no financial means who studies thanks to a scholarship and who has to find odd jobs, sees an advertisement asking for a boy to act as a guide for a weekend.

Thus, the innocent, simple and honest young man is going to spend the most intense weekend of his life acting as a guide for the blind ex-lieutenant, a seasoned, cunning, bad-tempered man with a highly developed instinct for sensing everything that is going on around him.

The boy and the lieutenant are going to embark on a journey of simple leisure and pleasure in New York, as the lieutenant wants to spend his savings doing what he wanted most: living the high life and conquering beautiful women.

But it's not all about leisure and pleasure. The two will share some of the hardest moments of their lives as the inner fears and dilemmas that grip each of them come to light.

A profound and moving story of intergenerational friendship between a mature man more blinded by the darkness of his soul than the darkness of his eyes, and a young man of great heart and fortitude who tries to shine some light amidst the darkness.

An absolutely seductive Al Pacino who at times makes us all forget the character's blindness, with a charming Chris O'Donnell providing the perfect counterpoint.

And that tango scene, of immeasurable beauty, the paradigm of the most daring, bewitching and delicate seduction.

You shouldn't miss any of the lieutenant's dialogues, they are not to be missed.

Wonderful script. Based on the novel by the journalist Giovanni Arpino, Darkness and Honey, however, only the main character was borrowed from it: a blind man with a bad temper who is accompanied by a young boy.