In occasion of the third centenary of the city of Rochefort, a fair is coming to the town square. The twin sisters Delphine and Solange Garnier won't miss the chance to find the man of their dreams. The twins' mother, Yvonne, owns a café in the center of town, and pines for a fiancé she left impulsively ten years before in order to focus on her work in the café. A well made...
Shinji e Masaru sono due perdigiorno: girano in bicicletta, fanno scherzi ai professori, ricattano i compagni, passano il tempo bevendo e fumando in un bar. Dopo aver lasciato la scuola i due ragazzi cercano il successo e il riscatto, diventando uno un pugile, l'altro un membro di una gang della Yakuza. Un film di Kitano con molti elementi autobiografici, in cui le vite ...
In the spring of 1896, five years after the mysterious exile, Tiburzi, an highwayman, suddenly reappears in the Maremma area, in Tuscany, Italy, the place where he had been ruling for twenty-five years. But something has changed. Now the house of Savoy reign on those territories, which were once considered wild and dangerous. A manhunt is organized by the local police and th...
Tano, the old barber of the village, promises to his son Tino, who dreams to become a barber like his dad, that the day of his fifteenth birthday he will be allowed to shave his first client. But that day, Tino dies. Tano, who has lost his mind, closes the shop and tries to resuscitate him in a quite curious way…
Director Romeo Castellucci, one of the founders of the Raffaello Sanzio society, tells through the visionary short film Brentano, the story of a young man "who has no desire to live anymore and decides to escape". Based on the homonym work of prose by Robert Walser, the film is shot as a sort of second optic skin around the character who remains disconnected by the same plac...
In occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Liberation Day, 18 of the best Italian rock bands were asked to record a CD. The title will be "Materiale Resistente 1945-1995" (Resistant Materials). The day the album was released, a concert was organized in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia. It was the 25th April, 1995. This film was shot during th...
A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
The movie is composed by cinematographic material of the First World War, gathered in the archives of the great empires that faced each other. The gathered footages show the life of the war prisoners, orphans, refugees (women and children) and the victims of the war, of both parties.
1940. Escaping from Italy, Maria and her boyfriend Olmo, a political activist, arrive to London where they hope to get asylum, but when Italy enters the war, Olmo gets arrested by the British authorities. Maria, alone, will be helped by Beatrice, who offers her protection and refugee on her boat.
Lisbon, 1994, a winter day. A forty years old woman spends the eight hours before the birth of her first child in desperation. Her partner, much younger that her, invents tragic, comic, caothic, crazy stories which correspond to the passing of the hours. The stories alleviate her pain.
