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.

Lacci.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	7.02 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x800 
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.256
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#1:  	Italian 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E091E775B7D2CB5/Lacci.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3C6DC961091C287/Lacci.2020.fixed.srt

Language(s):italian
Subtitles:english, italian

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In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare ammonite fossil from his school. Andrea is suspended and protests his innocence, but later confesses to his mother Paola he and his friend stole it as a prank, and intended to return it before it broke. Giovanni and Andrea make plans to go jogging together, but Giovanni is called to the distant home of a patient who is severely distressed about a possible cancer diagnosis. Instead, Andrea goes scuba diving with a friend and swims into an underwater cave, where he accidentally drowns. Giovanni, Paola and their daughter Irene are left to mourn. Giovanni investigates the diving equipment model and becomes suspicious that Andrea’s was defective, but Paola reminds him the verdict was that it was functioning properly. Giovanni, once a distant observer of his patients’ struggles, begins having difficulty analyzing them, particularly the one he went to see on the day Andrea died, against whom he shows signs of impatience and hostility.

One day, Paola receives a love letter sent to Andrea by a girl named Arianna, whom he had met at a camp. The family does not know Arianna, and never knew Andrea had a girlfriend. They realize she does not know Andrea has died and attempt to contact her, eventually inviting her to their home. Giovanni stops by a music store to buy an album, ostensibly for a friend of Andrea, but more for Andrea. A clerk gives him a Brian Eno album. Arianna arrives on her way to a destination, and sees Andrea’s bedroom. She shows Giovanni photographs Andrea sent her of himself in his room, some of which are very amusing. The family welcomes Arianna and offers to host her in their home, but she informs them she is hitchhiking with her friend Stefano to spend vacation in France. The family offers Arianna and Stefano a short ride, but it lingers to a point where they drive into the night and reach Menton, in the border between Italy and France. Bidding Arianna and Stefano goodbye, the family watch their bus leave Italy and wander in the beach as a new life awaits them.

La stanza del figlio AKA The Son's Room (2001).720p.BDRip.Italy_KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	4.72 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1196x720 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	6 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.290
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#1:  	Italian 2.0ch 24bit FLAC @ 747 kb/s (The Original Audio of the Movie)

https://nitro.download/view/C252BB938C9D1A2/La_stanza_del_figlio_AKA_The_Son’s_Room_(2001).720p.BDRip.Italy_KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian, Latin
Subtitles:English (SRT Muxed as Optional), English, French, German (SUP Muxed as Optional)

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Quote:
An ageing writer Paul is determined to make a film but he cannot decide on the subject or location. Instead, he chooses to concentrate his efforts on finding the actress who will star in the film, believing that she will define the lead character and content of the film. He recruits a young man, Jean, to try to find an Italian actress, Dara, whom he has lost sight of. Jean finds Dara in a small Italian town, serving in a modest restaurant, but she refuses to return to acting…

1.79GB | 1h 37mn | 738×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81A8AE026802027/Alain_Tanner_-_(1987)_La_vallee_fantome.mkv

Language:French, Italian
Subtitles:French

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Synopsis:
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrives looking for Robert.

Review:
A lot can be said about Portuguese director João César Monteiro and his films which are different from one another. One great thing about his works is that they have the ability to impress viewers by making them appreciate the value of a mature story which develops slowly.

This is the reason why a lot of patience is required to truly assess the greatness of his films. João César Monteiro is one of the few directors whose films are not for popcorn munching audiences who excel in inane bigotry. As far as this film is concerned one should not be misled by what is written as synopsis. “À Flor do Mar” is something more than few words which have been written as a condensed statement.

The truth is that there is hardly Any story in the film. What we really see are numerous moods and mood swings of various characters which have no bearing on this film’s beginning, middle or end. By showing an isolated house, a beach and a seashore João César Monteiro has revealed some of the most precious hidden talents of Portuguese actress Teresa Villaverde.

When Laura Rosseilini decided to abruptly interrupt her life in south of Portugal and leave for Rome, taking her children with her, she was absolutely convinced that they would no longer return to Portugal, which was according to her “a dead country”, and that she thought they had left it behind, for ever and ever. However, about a year later, Laura returns to that same house by the seashore, now in a pleasant holiday atmosphere , and she finds what is left of her family and yet something very unexpected …

She returns to an isolated house, barely protected from the confusion hovering abroad. According to “Positif” magazine, the film “perfects the contemplative and melancholy style Monteiro, with some of his sarcasm”.

“This is a film about the loss of belief in the existence of Love, a film of open wounds that have not been healed yet at Laura’s eyes, the main character. “À Flor do Mar” pervades the Light of Perfection and of “Absolute Harmony” which would be the light of Piero, as pervades the various Roberts or Robertos , where we cannot go back (Jordan, Rossellini or Browning), but all this (or all of these) are Ideas without possible materialization..

The Light of Piero is for this film as the Bach’s music, which is heard therein, is. It is an appeal, not a description. Humans are too much indiscreet for those ideas. And the “Harmony” seems to exist only in “Still Lifes” (hence, their importance and the focus on food theme all across this movie) or (another sequence capital) in another décor, when Laura is in the bôite, among incarnated. “
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A.Flor.do.Mar.1986.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 23 min
Size: 	5.26 GiB
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Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 986 kb/s
BPP: 	0.457
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#1:  	Multiple languages 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Spectrum FRA Blu-ray 2025)

https://nitro.download/view/8CC8E675BDD5647/A.Flor.do.Mar.1986.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French, Italian, Portuguese

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