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Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers’ behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.Read More »
Based on Azar Nafisi’s best-selling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran stars Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly, Paterson) as a former professor at Tehran University who secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden classics of Western literature. As fundamentalists cement their grip on Iranian cultural and political life, the women remove their veils and speak about their intimate hopes, loves, disappointments, femininity, and search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and forge their own futures.Read More »
The knight Guerrando is forced to leave for the Crusades before he’s had time to consummate his marriage with the beautiful Boccadoro. According to the custom of the period, Guerrando applies the chastity belt to the bride.Read More »
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In the third episode, an earl reads the announcement of a widow looking for a husband and hosts her at the castle to marry her, only to discover that it is death. He offers her, in exchange for his own, the life of his governess; death accepts as long as she is consenting and untouched. By marrying her and with a trap, the count manages to voluntarily cause the housekeeper to die but is hit by the hearse carrying his wife’s remains. The driver, to the protests of the death, replies: dead certain hora incerta. Suddenly the count wakes up and discovers that it was only a dream but he hears a car ringing, he looks out the window and sees that the widow who appeared in the dream has just arrived saying that she is the woman from the announcement.Read More »
Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 is a four-part anthology film inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s collection of bawdy, limerick-laden farces, The Decameron. The Italian-American brainchild of producers Carlo Ponti and Joseph E. Levine, the film pulls together contributions from four major Italian directors: Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8½), Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D.), and Luchino Visconti (The Leopard).Read More »
A married couple try to resolve their marriage crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two other lovers…Read More »
The Ties (Italian: Lacci) is a 2020 Italian romantic drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Domenico Starnone.
In early 1980s Naples, the marriage of a loving couple is threatened by a potential affair between the husband and a younger woman.
The picture will have its world premiere on 2 September 2020 at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, out of competition.Read More »
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.Read More »