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220 articles available in total starting from 25/07/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Un giorno della vita reminiscent of Truffaut and Tornatore

A low budget and high ambitions mark the debut film of 50-year-old Giuseppe Papasso, who in making Un giorno della vita (“A Day in the Life”) was inspired by François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows to...  

11/01/2011 | Films | Italy

Zalone opts for political incorrectness in Che bella giornata

Strong off the success his debut feature Cado dalle nubi, which garnered over €14m at the box office, comedian Checco Zalone (real name Luca Medici) returns to cinemas with the first Italian title...  

07/01/2011 | Films | Italy

Silvio Muccino explores Another World

Twenty-eight year-old Andrea (Silvio Muccino) has a wealthy and aloof mother (Greta Scacchi) who finances his aimless life; a girlfriend, Livia (Isabella Ragonese), with eating disorders; and a...  

20/12/2010 | Films | Italy

Lucini's Donna a polished romantic comedy

Who is La donna della mia vita (“The Woman of My Dreams”) of the title of the new film by Luca Lucini? From the poster, one would say Valentina Lodovini (recently seen in Benvenuti al Sud),...  

22/11/2010 | Films | Italy

From the Waist Down a prison Cyrano tale

As in a modern version of Cyrano de Bergerac, Gianfrancesco Lazotti’s From the Waist Down begins with a letter written per interposta persona: Rosalba (Nicoletta Romanoff) can’t find the right...  

15/11/2010 | Films | Italy

Brizzi’s Maschi Contro Femmine looks at battle of sexes

“In my opinion, a man and a woman are the two people least suited to marry each other”: this quotation from Massimo Troisi opens Maschi Contro Femmine (“Men Versus Women”), the new film by Fausto...  

22/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Figli delle stelle a comedy about unlikely revolutionaries

There is nothing more terribly démodé than the idea of kidnapping a politician. But tell that to the dazed and confused men of Figli delle stelle (“Children of the Stars”), the fourth feature film...  

18/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Passione in Naples

While Julia Roberts spouts stereotypes in Eat Pray Love, there’s an American – or rather, Italian-American – who delves behind the clichés, sometimes at the risk of succumbing to them, but more...  

13/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Avati’s Sconfinata Giovinezza

Rather than Una Sconfinata Giovinezza (“Endless Youth”), explains Pupi Avati in reference to the title of his latest film, “it should have been called An Endless Childhood”: “At this time in my...  

04/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Benvenuti al Sud, remake more “real” than original

“Why weren’t we the first to come up with the idea?” Like Claudio Bisio, many Italians have asked themselves this question on seeing Dany Boon’s film Welcome to the Sticks, the 2008 French box...  

27/09/2010 | Films | Italy

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