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

Sharm el Sheikh a light-hearted comedy about a serious subject

There may be exotic beaches and bathing beauties (including Michela Quattrociocche, Elena Russo and Laura Torrisi), but don’t call it a cinepanettone [the bawdy Christmas blockbusters]. Sharm el...  

14/09/2010 | Films | Italy

Crisostomi’s debut Alice a surreal fairy tale

The Umbrian countryside replaces Wonderland and the Alice in question has little to do with Tim Burton’s 3D success, the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter in Oreste Crisostomi’s debut film Alice. In...  

23/06/2010 | Films | Italy

18 Years Later for another commedia all'Italiana

Brothers Mirko and Genziano haven’t spoken for 18 years, not since the day their mother died in a car accident. Mirko took over the family garage, had a son with his wife Mirella and does his best...  

31/05/2010 | Films | Italy

I Am Alive a noir reflection on society

Some have called it a noir of the soul, others a thriller about the job crisis. There are various ways to read I Am Alive, the feature debut by brothers Dino and Filippo Gentili, from whose genre...  

27/05/2010 | Films | Italy

Una canzone per te a mix of genres for MTV generation

After having inaugurated a series of teenage hits with Three Steps Over Heaven (and its sequel), Cattleya strikes out again in the genre, in the hopes of capturing the tastes and passions of the...  

26/05/2010 | Films | Italy

Italian xenophobia emerges in Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Can an elevator represent the paradigm of relationships between people in a society of mixed different ethnicities, religion and classes? Yes, if those people live in one of the historic buildings...  

11/05/2010 | Films | Italy

Draquila: Bitter laughter headed to Cannes

“I’ve spent €200m in lawyers and judges,” says Silvio Berlusconi on TV, and it’s his first slip, the first comic gem that draws laughs in Draquila – L’Italia Che Trema (the title of which was...  

04/05/2010 | Films | Italy

Physics of Water released six years after completion

"I acted in Felice Farina’s The Physics of Water in 2004, and subsequently saw all the problems it had making it to the screen, despite having received public funding and the fact that many...  

23/04/2010 | Films | Italy

Papaleo’s directorial debut Basilicata Coast to Coast a road movie musical

Take a handful of musicians on a coast-to-coast walking trip; a bored, small-town journalist forced to follow them; a beautiful, rarely seen landscape; a horse and cart; and a series of strange...  

07/04/2010 | Films | Italy

Sul Mare a new “debut” for D'Alatri

If no man is an island, as John Donne’s poem teaches us, men who live on islands have their particularity, be it an obscure impulse for extinction or a sunny disposition for solitude. Salvatore...  

29/03/2010 | Films | Italy

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