Directed byRoberto Andò OriginItalie GenresDrama ActorsLaura Morante, Jerzy Skolimowski, Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Catania, Gaetano Bruno Roles Nemi Rating60% Alessandro Pes est un scénariste à succès mais ce que tout le monde ignore c'est qu'il est à court d'idées depuis une décennie et que celle qui écrit les scénarios qu'il signe est en réalité Valeria Tramonti, la modeste secrétaire de la maison de production où il est sous contrat. En ce moment, Alessandro est aux abois. Vitelli, son producteur et son nouvel associé Spadafora ont déjà engagé le grand metteur en scène Jerzy Kunze ainsi que les principaux acteurs et lui, comme d'habitude, n'a pas pondu une ligne. Il presse son amie (et parfois un peu plus) Valeria de le tirer de ce mauvais pas. Elle n'est pas très inspirée cette fois mais, un jour, alors qu'elle fait ses courses au marché, un inconnu l'aborde et lui donne rendez-vous : il lui confie un scénario, encore inachevé, qui fera l'affaire. Les complications et les ennuis commencent.
, 2h17 Directed byMario Martone OriginItalie GenresDrama, Biography, Historical ActorsAnna Mouglalis, Isabella Ragonese, Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Salvatore Cantalupo Roles Carlo Antici Rating67% The film tells the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. A noble, his birth's in Recanati, and soon Giacomo learns to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built. Giacomo, however, possessing an inquisitive, restless spirit, would like to know to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century. Still this desire of his lies at odds with his parents (his father, while possessing a sensibility akin to his, is too bound by the social conventions and the expectations tied to his role as 'Pater Familias'; his mother, on the other hand, is too busy shoring up the household declining fortunes to even care about intellectual aspirations). So the poet begins to write his first works, reflecting about human condition, coming to the conclusion that unhappiness is a costant factor of human existence, and that in life there is no way to remedy this problem. In 1820s, Leopardi can finally leave the native Recanati, and travels to Rome and Florence where, however, his high expectations of intellectual rewards and public recognition are frustrated. Suffering from repeated instances of unrequited love: chiefly that he felt towards the Countess Fanny Targioni Tozzetti, contribute to Leopardi's negative view of life and human experience. Finally he moves to Naples, where a physical decadence led him to death.
, 1h46 Directed byCarlo Mazzacurati GenresComedy ActorsSilvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Cristiana Capotondi, Corrado Guzzanti, Kasia Smutniak, Stefania Sandrelli Roles vicino di casa Rating62% In a small village in Umbria, the film director Gianni is in deep creative crisis. He lives like a bum, no longer an idea to create a movie when its problems if there is another bigger than all the others. His home water pipe broke, flooding as a precious fresco of the church in the country. Gianni has two choices: pay the damage or finance and direct a sacred representation of the Passion of Christ. Since we do not have the money to pay for the damage to the fresco ancient, Gianni agrees to regain the Italian public by directing the sacred representation.
, 1h44 Directed byPupi Avati OriginItalie GenresDrama, War ActorsSilvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Alba Rohrwacher, Ezio Greggio, Serena Grandi, Paolo Graziosi Roles Andrea Taxler Rating66% In Bologna in the late '30s, Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando) teaches design at the same institute where his daughter Giovanna (Alba Rohrwacher) studies. Michele is a loving father but overprotective. He does not recognize the mental health problems of his daughter, and can not save her from a tragic fate, when she is locked in a mental institution after killing her best friend.
, 1h40 Directed byMarco Tullio Giordana OriginItalie GenresDrama, Crime ActorsGiulio Scarpati, Toni Bertorelli, Antonello Fassari, Claudio Bigagli, Nicoletta Braschi, Biagio Pelligra Roles Luigi Canerini Rating68% The film traces the last hours of the life of poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The poet is killed at night in 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. A boy is arrested: Pino Pelosi, and charged with murder. The police and judges believe that Pelosi is the only murderer of Pasolini, but his injuries on the body of the poet are too severe and profound. Then are called to bear witness to the death of the poet his sister and his mother, destroyed by grief. As the process unfolds, the film examines the personality of Pasolini, and his works and, above all explains what people think of him in Italy. Pasolini according to some Italians was a provocative man: he deserved what he suffered, having been a Communist and a homosexual. Instead, his friends and intellectuals remember him as a very good and sensible man, who sought only to fight against neo-fascism and the cruel and bigoted mentality of middle-class society.
Directed byEmidio Greco GenresDrama ActorsGian Maria Volonté, Massimo Dapporto, Ennio Fantastichini, Ricky Tognazzi, Massimo Ghini, Paolo Graziosi Roles Colonnello dei Carabinieri Rating71% The Sciascia story unfolds with the arrival in Sicily of a medicine rep from Verona. He is a unaware of being witness to a double murder at a rural railway station and hears of the event on the car radio. He calls on the local police station to help with the enquiries. The police had already discovered the body of a retired ambassador, who had returned after years of absence, to in his remote farmhouse, after calling them to alert them of his discovery of a item (a stolen painting) rolled up in the attic. The police did not call that night as the duty Inspector who left soon after insisted the Brigadiere should tarry as it might be a hoax as he knew the Farmhose to be abandoned. The following day the strange appearance of the retired ambassador's body which appeared to have been a suicide, raises suspicion in the Brigadiere that he may have been murdered. This remains the investigating policeman's opinion but is totally rejected by the Police Commissioner who insists on a simple and uncomplicated suicide. There is a suggestion that the Carabinieri who have also turned up at the crime scene are aware of the alternative theory the Brigadiere had mulled over with the Carabiniere driver and repeated to his superior the Colonel. Meanwhile interrogation of the Veronese witness clarifies that he had not seen the railway staff but their murderers rolling up a "carpet"/ painting in the station. The film follows the investigation as it proceeds with an old friend of the "suicide" a professor Franzo also revealing more on the telephone conversations they had exchanged before the ambassador's death. It looked to the police as though the Farm buildings had been used for criminal activity for some time. The inspector however appeared to be overly familiar with the inside of the Great house and real doubts entered the Brigadiere's mind as to his real involvement in the crime. The Procurator/judge insisted unreasonably the police Commissioner and Carabinieri should give him more and cast iron evidence if he were to proceed with any case, as in his view all he heard were conjectures. The estranged widow and son of the ambassador arrive and the extent of the family rift is evident. They appear to have relied on the local parish priest Don Cricco to oversee the mainly abandoned family properties in the area. The film ends with an accident in which the Inspector and Brigadiere exchange pistol shots, killing the Inspector. The police call it an accident.
, 1h40 Directed byLuigi Comencini OriginItalie GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ActorsVirna Lisi, Michel Serrault, Paolo Graziosi, Tiziana Pini, Francesca Neri, Mattia Sbragia Roles Pietro Rating61% Elvira et Gino sont contraints de quitter leur appartement qu'ils ne peuvent plus payer. Chacun d'eux est recueilli par une de leurs filles, aucune d'elles ne pouvant les accueillir ensemble. Elvira et Gino se retrouvent dans une curieuse situation de couple qui doit se donner rendez-vous, comme le ferait un couple d'amants, pour se retrouver.