Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and that no longer recognizes her. People have changed and Rossella finds no one capable of answering the obsessive question that has plagued her for some time: “How can I disappear?”Read More »
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Sacro GRA is a 2013 documentary directed by Gianfranco Rosi.
The documentary engaged Rosi for two years for the shooting and about eight months for editing.
The work was presented at the 70th Venice International Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for Best Film, the first documentary to win the top award in the seventy years of history of the Venice Film Festival.Read More »
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Fabio Testi stars as Floyd, a criminal who on the very day of his parole participates in a jewelry store robbery in downtown Toronto. Of course, the robbery takes a turn for the worse as Testi’s accomplice, Joe (played by Eli Wallach) starts shooting up the place and kills a young man. After a lengthy car chase (a standard in Lucidi’s films), Testi and Wallach split up to meet again across the border.Wallach entrusts Testi with the diamonds and his really nice German car, which Testi wrecks somewhere in the Canadian countryside. Testi finds his way to the Last Chance Motel right out in the middle of nowhere, run by none else than Massimo Girotti and his intoxicating wife Ursula Andress.Read More »
Two broke, bar-hopping fifty somethings meet a shy and aimless architecture student. Together, the three men embark on a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains where bad advice, hangovers and unexpected friendship shake up the young man’s future plans for life and love.Read More »
A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father’s death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad’s autobiography.Read More »
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In 1940s Calabria a man unjustly accused of murder flees to the countryside and becomes an agrarian revolutionary and a bandit.A little boy grows up admiring him.Read More »
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A pretty 20-year-old German woman, Erika, arrives in a Sicilian village, guest of the elderly baron Giovanni Laurana, already a friend of her mother. Free and open-minded – she had early experiences – the young woman does not hesitate to indulge in Renato, the elder son of the baron, destined for a marriage of convenience with Concettina, a girl from the village.Read More »
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Is it possible to think of nothing? The absence of expression on Fausto’s face as he stands in front of his machine in the factory tells us that it is. When Ivan asks him the same thing it turns out that a thought has crept into his head: an extreme thought, dark, beyond human standards. It is this violent thought that is the origin of the encounter between Fausto and Ivan. In a remote valley eaten away by industrial towns, they are confronted with the impossibility of escape from their everyday existence.Read More »
A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. Il Viaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you are blessed or doomed is often dependent on someone’s soul that on whether they pray or suffer. The kindred spirit of San Gil! the Holy Gil! is Ciccio Bavaria who, unlike the former, continues to seek sin. For Bavaria sin is liberating and dynamic. The film tells the story of the journey made by these two protagonists; a journey that leads to the demise of San Gil, while Bavaria is reincarnated as Buddha. There is another traveler, a clandestine traveler. Christ, always fleeing the angels. This Christ does not help humanity with miracles, but by keeping himself alive as best he can giving weather forecasts. In this strange sanity story, Ruiz allowed himself to be inspired by apocryphal books about saints of flesh and blood.Read More »