The director has lost his brother, his father and his mother and tells about these three deaths in this autobiographical film. A senseless death, the one of his brother Armand, caught in a fire during a party. A heartrending death, the one of his father, who has to submit to a devastating cancer. A conscious death, the one of his mother, overcome with grief by the death of o...
A poetic travel diary about one of the most fascinating area in Italy: the Po delta. The traveller, day after day, lives and discovers this place and the people who work there. The past emerges through the stories told by the characters and the visual memories of an important Italian director, Florestano Vancini, who, 50 years ago, realized several documentaries in these pla...
Louis Mahé, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel, whom he's never met. One day, she escapes with all his money and it turns out that her real name is Marion. She is an adventurer and, together with an accomplice, has killed the real Julie. Louis leaves for France with the idea of t...
Claude Zoret, a famous and rich painter, falls in love with one of his models, Michael, and for a time the two live happily as partners. Zoret is considerably older than Michael, and as they age, Michael begins to drift from him, although Zoret is completely blind to this. When a bankrupt countess comes to Zoret to have a portrait made — with the real intent of seducing him ...
A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit The Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex, designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin, to honour the memory of the deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company, located in the small cemetery of ...
Every night, in the historic and most important milongas in Buenos Aires, in addition to an incredible number of Tango enthusiasts, the most famous Milongueros speak about themselves and explain how the Tango, before being a wonderful music and a sensual dance, it is primarily "a way of life".
Bing, a Chinese girl, moves from China to Torino. Waiting for her, there is her new brother...
The celebrations for the centenary of the coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Cornabusa mark the passing of time and seasons. The festival of fire announces the beginning of the autumn. During the night, the valley lights up and the rain accompanies the migration of the last animals that move from Pallio coast to the lower contradas. The hunters prepare the hunting calls...
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her. The famous play by August Strindberg adapted for the screen and stage in multiple countries and languages, gets an Anglophone interpretation from the legendary Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.
Roberto is an histrionic sixty year old man who thinks outside the box. He tells us about how intensely he has lived without taking anything for granted, his experiences, his personal and generational disappointments and his unaccomplished dreams. He goes from his first accident in Lambretta to his discovery of punk music and from his first job as a janitor to his father&rsq...
