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Vittoria Scarpa


1909 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 04/06/2025.

Series review: The Art of Joy

Series review: The Art of Joy

The gripping series directed by Valeria Golino arrives on Sky, an adaptation of the scabrous posthumous book by Goliarda Sapienza about a young orphan willing to do anything to be happy  

27/02 | Italy/UK

Review: Amiche Mai

Review: Amiche Mai

Italian director Maurizio Nichetti returns to directing a film for the big screen after 23 years of absence, and finds everything very changed  

26/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Slovenia

Review: Madly

Review: Madly

Paolo Genovese’s brilliant new comedy focuses on a first date between a man and a woman, and all the voices which live in their brains, caught between embarrassment and laughter  

19/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Review: Tornando a Est

Review: Tornando a Est

Antonio Pisu reunites with his trio of characters in Eastern Europe, this time after the fall of the Berlin wall, in a spy comedy that delicately balances lightness and reflection  

12/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Review: My Birthday

Review: My Birthday

Christian Filippi’s moving debut speaks of the disillusionment of a young man in a foster home who dreams of living with his mother but who is forced to face reality  

27/01 | Trieste 2025

Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

Interview: Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

“Adults are the biggest adversaries of freedom because they don’t let adolescents enjoy being carefree”

We sat down with the Neapolitan director to discuss harmful inheritance, impossible love and non-places  

23/01 | /Italy

Series review: Public Disorder (A.C.A.B.)

Series review: Public Disorder (A.C.A.B.)

13 years after A.C.A.B. – All Cops Are Bastards, the series directed by Michele Alhaique focuses on riot police officers’ inner conflict and the line between legitimate and illegitimate use of force  

15/01 | Series | Reviews | Italy

Italians made their return to cinemas in 2024, with 493 million euros taken at the box office and 70 million tickets sold

Italians made their return to cinemas in 2024, with 493 million euros taken at the box office and 70 million tickets sold

Data on the Italian film market’s performance over the past year has now been presented, with results on a par with 2023 and in line with pre-Covid levels  

10/01 | Box Office | Italy

Lorenzo Pullega gathers stories from around the Reno river in The Rhine Gold

Lorenzo Pullega gathers stories from around the Reno river in The Rhine Gold

Produced by Pier Giorgio Bellocchio and the Manetti bros., the Italian director’s first feature film is scheduled to world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at the IFFR  

19/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy

Review: Diamanti

Review: Diamanti

Ferzan Ozpetek deploys a star cast in his dazzling film set in a dressmaker’s for film and theatre, where the fates of its female employees interweave while fulfilling an important order  

18/12/2024 | Films | Reviews | Italy

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