Italian

Frolickers enjoy a sunny afternoon at a Roman beach.

Review:
Recalling the informal neorealist spirit and sociopolitical consciousness of important prewar ensembles such as People on Sunday (1930) and Treno popolare (1933), while paving the way for the wry comedies of manners produced under the aegis of commedia all’italiana, Luciano Emmer’s wonderful Sunday in August (Domenica d’agosto) skillfully interweaves several stories involving a disparate array of Romans who flock to the beaches of Ostia on the eponymous day to escape both the summer heat and their daily troubles. As this lively blend of fiction and documentary proves, however, they are only partly successful in their endeavors.Read More »

Countess Elena Rambaldi’s brother, Alfonso, is asked to leave the Rambaldi estate by Count Rambaldi and take up quarters elsewhere. Alfonso plots to usurp the Rambaldi estate.Read More »

Quote:
Immersing us in a sea of words and images, Al largo brings us into contact with the experience of suffering. Dissolving the polarity between egoism and altruism, taking care becomes a gesture which alone seems to resist in front of the excessive power of life. Anna Marziano returns to the Festival with a film inspired by the reading of Nietzsche and Donald Winnicott.Read More »

A cinematic treatise on diverse forms of affection, love and partnership, and the difficult search for an individual way of expressing these feelings in the face of tradition and social conventions. People from around the world talk about love intimacy, but also their dark side and the violence that can erupt when spontaneous emotions are smothered by compromise. The contrasting use of different film and video formats, combined with the asynchronous combination of sound and image, underscores the film’s specific openness resulting from the subjects’ courageous testimony. Does love die when it submits to conformity and becomes ideology?Read More »

After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter’s wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.Read More »

Une rue jonchée de papiers. Les jambes des passants. Un jeune homme traverse la rue. Puis on le retrouve en pleine discussion avec un ami. « Tu es toujours décidé à partir ? – Oui, je pars aujourd’hui à dix sept heures en avion. »

A street, littered by papers. Passersby’s legs. A young man crosses the street. Later, that same man is talking with a friend. “Are you still sure to leave? – Yes, I’m going today at 5 P.M .”

Film restauré en 2010 à partir des éléments 16 mm déposés par Jean-Claude Biette à la Cinémathèque française.Read More »

Synopsis:
Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that their name bears. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth.Read More »

Manuel is sixteen years old and trying to enjoy his life as much as he can, while taking care of his elderly father. Subjected to blackmail, he goes to a party to take photos of a mysterious individual but, feeling that he has been duped, decides to flee, finding himself embroiled in matters that are far beyond him. In fact the blackmailers that pursue him turn out to be extremely dangerous and determined to get rid of what they regard as an inconvenient witness and the boy will have to turn for protection to two former criminals, old acquaintances of his father.Read More »

The “casanova” gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, after meeting two exotic girls from America.Read More »