GIULIA NON ESCE LA SERA (Giulia doesn’t date at night)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Giuseppe Piccioni. Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali. Italy. 2008 Guido Montani, a successful writer and recipient of an elitist literary award joins a local pool for swimming lessons. In so doing, his path criss-crosses with that of Giulia, a beautiful woman who projects […]
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LO SPAZIO BIANCO (The White Space)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Francesca Comencini. Cast: Margherita Buy, Antonia Truppo, Guido Caprino, Gaetano Bruno. Italy. 2009 Maria, a teacher in Naples is nervous about becoming a mother and her anxieties are put into even sharper focus when her baby is born two months premature. The newborn’s health is fragile, and […]
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LO SPAZIO BIANCO (The White Space)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Francesca Comencini. Cast: Margherita Buy, Antonia Truppo, Guido Caprino, Gaetano Bruno. Italy. 2009 Maria, a teacher in Naples is nervous about becoming a mother and her anxieties are put into even sharper focus when her baby is born two months premature. The newborn’s health is fragile, and […]
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SIGNORINA EFFE (Ms. F)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Wilma Labate. Cast: Valeria Solarino, Filippo Timi, Fausto Paravidino, Sabrina Impacciatore. Italy. 2007 Emma, a white-collared employee with the Fiat automobile company is romantically involved with Silvio, one of Fiat’s top executives. But while she loves Silvio, she is also attracted to Sergio, a worker in the […]
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SIGNORINA EFFE (Ms. F)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Wilma Labate. Cast: Valeria Solarino, Filippo Timi, Fausto Paravidino, Sabrina Impacciatore. Italy. 2007 Emma, a white-collared employee with the Fiat automobile company is romantically involved with Silvio, one of Fiat’s top executives. But while she loves Silvio, she is also attracted to Sergio, a worker in the […]
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LA SCONOSCIUTA (The Unknown)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Pierfrancesco Favino. Italy. 2006 Irena, a Ukrainian prostitute on the run, is determined to find a job in an elegant apartment building in northern Italy, and starts by cleaning the stairs. She does it in order to inch […]
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LA SCONOSCIUTA (The Unknown)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Pierfrancesco Favino. Italy. 2006 Irena, a Ukrainian prostitute on the run, is determined to find a job in an elegant apartment building in northern Italy, and starts by cleaning the stairs. She does it in order to inch […]
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I GIORNI DELL’ABBANDONO (The Days of Abandonment)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Roberto Faenza. Cast: Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti, Goran Bregovic. Italy. 2005 Olga, content and happy, is suddenly abandoned by her husband. And this abandonement sends her plunging into the depths of a relentless vortex. She faces moments when violent feelings and emotions tear her apart, when the […]
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I GIORNI DELL’ABBANDONO (The Days of Abandonment)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Roberto Faenza. Cast: Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti, Goran Bregovic. Italy. 2005 Olga, content and happy, is suddenly abandoned by her husband. And this abandonement sends her plunging into the depths of a relentless vortex. She faces moments when violent feelings and emotions tear her apart, when the […]
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LA BESTIA NEL CUORE (Don’t tell (Beast in the heart))
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Cristina Comencini. Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessia Boni, Stefania Rocca, Luigi Lo Cascio. Italy. 2005 Sabina leads a happy life with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and also she discovers to be pregnant. She remembers her childhood spent within a middle-class […]
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