PROVINCIA MECCANICA (Life in the countryside)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA Director: Stefano Mordini. Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Valentina Cervi, I. Franek, Miro Landoni, Luisa Pasello, Barbara Folchitto, G Piperno. Italy. 2005 Marco and Silvia Battaglia are not exactly the average couple. Their household is chaotic with two children, Sonia and Davis, a dog and an iguana…. What […]
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MAI PIÙ COME PRIMA (Never again like before)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Dolomiti Mountains) Director: Giacomo Campiotti. Cast: Laura Chiatti, Lidia Broccolino, Marco Velluti, Natalia Piatti, Marco Casu, Pino Quartullo. Italy. 2005 Four boys and two girls, who have just graduated from high school, completely different from each other, vacation together in the stunning Dolomite Mountains. […]
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RESPIRO (Breath)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Lampedusa) Director: Emanuele Crialese. Cast: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa. Italy. 2002 The film retells an old Sicilian legend about the island of Lampedusa, where the inhabitants believe a young mother is crazy because she constantly breaks the stringent rules of their insular […]
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RESPIRO (Breath)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Lampedusa) Director: Emanuele Crialese. Cast: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa. Italy. 2002 The film retells an old Sicilian legend about the island of Lampedusa, where the inhabitants believe a young mother is crazy because she constantly breaks the stringent rules of their insular […]
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LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (The first beautiful thing)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Tuscany) Director: Paolo Virzì, Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli. Italy. 2010 Paolo Virzì, the last heir of Italian comedy, recounts the resentment of a child for a mother too generous, the ambitions of a great little woman in Italy in the sixties, […]
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BALLO A TRE PASSI (Three Step Dancing)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Salvatore Mereu. Cast: Yael Abecassis, Michele Carboni, Caroline Ducey, Daniele Casula. Italy. 2003 Four tales of life in a rural Sardinian village, each with its own color palette and an age-appropriate hero or heroine, is the canvas on which Salvatore Mereu paints […]
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L’AVVENTURA (The Adventure)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti and Lea Massari. Italy. 1960 A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle […]
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BASTA UN NIENTE (Before you know it)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Ivan Polidoro. Cast: Gianfelice Imparato, Gianni Ferreri, Mimmo Esposito, Lorenza Indovina. Italy. 2006 The film’s setting provides a wonderful backdrop for this comedy, and the director uses the scenery of Naples’ famous Gulf as a seductive setting on which Ivo, Rosario, and […]
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MINE VAGANTI (Loose Cannons)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Ferzan Ozpetek. Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini. Italy. 2010 Tommaso Cantone is the youngest son of a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies […]
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DIECI INVERNI (Ten Winters)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Valerio Mieli. Cast: Isabella Ragonese, Michele Riondino, Glen Blackhall, Sergei Zhigunov. Italy. 2009 In the winter of 1999 a small ferry crosses the Venice lagoon. Camilla, a shy eighteen year old who has just arrived from her small town to study Russian […]
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