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

Happy Family: Salvatores’ latest a “coloured” comedy

Ezio (Fabio De Luigi) is approaching 40: he’s single, in good health and has money. Enough to allow him to be invent stories that others have to tell – as a screenwriter. The curtain literally...  

17/03/2010 | Films | Italy

When Parents & Children collide

In Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You the young Scott (Lucas Haas) gets hit on the head and suddenly becomes a Republican, to the horror of his parents Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn, lifelong...  

23/02/2010 | Films | Italy

Avati’s Figlio Più Piccolo a cruel critique of Italian status quo

Pupi Avati’s “father trilogy” ends with Il Figlio Più Piccolo ("The Youngest Son"), he says: “La Cena per Farli Conoscere was about a deadbeat father who gets close to his three daughters through...  

09/02/2010 | Films | Italy

Virzì’s “first beautiful thing” in tenth feature

It takes Bruno just one look at his terminally ill mother Anna to be flooded by memories. Back to 38 years ago, to the summer of 1971, when Anna was crowned "the most beautiful mother” of the most...  

12/01/2010 | Films | Italy

Rubini’s “bogeyman” a failed artist

As an actor, Sergio Rubini had the great fortune to play Federico Fellini’s alter ego in the autobiographical Intervista, (1987, it was Fellini’s second to last film and Rubini was 28) and...  

30/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Meno Male Che Ci Sei looks to span generations of women

Strong off of €16m at the 2007 box office from teen flick Ho Voglia di Te (see news), 39-year-old Madrid-born director Luis Prieto, adopted by Italy’s Cattleya studio, is back in the saddle with...  

24/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Turin FF: Two local films look at Arab immigrants

Fifty years ago, there were Sicilians, Calabrians and Apulians, today there are northern Africans, people from the world’s southern hemisphere, who in Turin hope to find a better life. The arrival...  

19/11/2009 | Films | Italy

De Matteo’s Beautiful People are anything but at Turin fest

The characters of the ironically titled second feature film by Ivano De Matteo, La Bella Gente (“The Beautiful People”) – in the Festa Mobile sidebar of the Turin Film Festival – are anything but...  

17/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Turin FF: Bocca del Lupo pays homage to Genoa’s marginalized

The surprise film (for now) of the relatively understated Turin Film Festival is Italian. Screening in competition today is La Bocca del Lupo (“The Mouth of The Wolf”, from a novel by Gaspare...  

16/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Emotion and subversion in The Front Line

Preceded by controversies over the fact that the state was to fund a film about terrorism, Renato De Maria’s The Front Line hits domestic screens on November 20. During development, however,...  

12/11/2009 | Films | Italy

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