In four seasons nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature. One can lose the path that led safely home, one can sail seas towards unknown lands. In four seasons one can die and be reborn. Vermiglio tells of the last year of the Second World War in a large family and how, by a paradox of fate, with the arrival of a refugee soldier it loses its peace at the very moment in which the world finds its own.Read More »
The last working factory in Milan. Four men stand on a crane inside. Dozens of their co-workers stand out front, engaged in a joint struggle for saving their jobs. An eight-day struggle against the Italian developers who have decided to level their entire life’s work to the ground.Read More »
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Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He’s then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.Read More »
In this 1980 documentary, originally in three parts but presented here in its entirety, Vittorio De Seta presents the drama of the Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the great Asian metropolis.Read More »
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.Read More »
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people’s dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother’s suicide, her brother’s mental illness. Ada, a dog-owning client, hires her to follow Ada’s aged and courtly father every day. The dad, a retired philology professor, has a touch of dementia, sometimes forgetting where he is; Cora is to keep him in sight, phoning Ada if the professor has difficulties. On the third day, he takes a train out of Rome, and Cora follows on what proves to be a journey into her best and worst selves. She becomes his traveling companion, but what does he become to her? (IMDb)Read More »
A famous baritone tells about the adventure he had taken the day before, when he lost his train and found himself wandering the countryside with a girl who had left the jealous boyfriend on the train.Read More »