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Films / Italy


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

Barbarossa has Lega Nord written all over it

No film by Renzo Martinelli can escape controversy, preventative or otherwise. This time, journalists have even pointed out the political colour of the operation – “Padania green”, the colour of...  

08/10/2009 | Films | Italy

Generazione 1000 Euro: Young and precarious

"My name is Matteo and I’m a cliché", says the protagonist of Massimo Venier’s Generazione Mille Euro (“Generation 1000 Euros”). He is a young man with a precarious job, like countless others,...  

22/04/2009 | Films | Italy

A dead-end generation flees the Call Center

"In the 1970s films were made about the working class so it’s only natural that in this moment of our history films are being made about temp workers," said director Federico Rizzo of the recent...  

15/04/2009 | Films | Italy

Archibugi looks at matters of heart and class

Two years after Flying Lessons, Francesca Archibugi has returned with Questione di Cuore (“A Question of the Heart”), which could well be the best film of her career, thanks above all to two...  

08/04/2009 | Films | Italy

Incerti mixes love and politics during the Argentine coup

Summer 1978: the World Cup is being held in Argentina. Less than a kilometre from the Estadio Monumental, General Videla’s men are torturing and killing dissidents at the ESMA military school. The...  

07/04/2009 | Films | Italy

Ferrario places Christ behind bars

A musical set in prison with a digression on the passion of Christ. What sounds like folly is actually Tutta Colpa di Giuda (“All Giulia’s Fault”), the latest film by Davide Ferrario, a rigorously...  

02/04/2009 | Films | Italy

Avati’s “amarcord” at the Bar Margherita

After the dramatic Giovanna’s Father (which won Alba Rohrwacher the Coppa Volpi at the latest Venive fest for Best Performance), Pupi Avati is back in cinemas with Gli Amici del Bar Margherita...  

30/03/2009 | Films | Italy

Faenza’s Klara aims for international audiences

Preceded by a little mystery – Laura Chiatti’s naked breast “disappeared” from the film’s poster, as per the instructions of distributor Medusa – March 27 will see the release of the latest film...  

24/03/2009 | Films | Italy

Fortapàsc looks at journalist murdered by the Camorra

“Giancarlo Siani was like clean water flowing from Vomero [a wealthy Naples neighbourhood] to Torre Annunziata [one of the city’s more violent neighbourhoods], where many tried to turn it into...  

18/03/2009 | Films | Italy

Love and politics in Diverso da chi?

Piero (Luca Argentero), openly gay and an activist for “alternative” rights, is running as the centre-left candidate for mayor of the small northern city of Udine. The current, extremely...  

17/03/2009 | Films | Italy

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