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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LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO (The Girl by the Lake)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Andrea Molaioli. Cast: Valerio Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Omero Antonutti, Anna Bonaluto. Italy. 2007 An idyllic mountain town in the Italian dolomites is shocked by the murder of teenager Anna. Her body is found by the lake without any traces of physical violence. […]
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FAME CHIMICA (Chemical Hunger)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Directors: Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola. Cast: Mimmo Allanprese, Joel Bossi and Andrea Canesi. Italia. 2004 In the southern suburbs of Milan, two friends Claudio and Manuel, who keep meeting each other in the square where they grew up, bring forth two different […]
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A/R ANDATA E RITORNO (Round Trip)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Marco Ponti. Cast: Kabir Bedi, Libero Di Rienzo, Vanessa Incontrada. Italy. 2004 Dante Cruciani, 25, a resident of Turin, is a bike messenger hard up for cash who decides to borrow some money from a loan shark names Skorpio. Unable to pay […]
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OGGI SPOSI (Just Married)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Luca Lucini. Cast: Luca Argentero, Moran Atias, Carolina Crescentini, Filippo Nigro, Dario Bandiera. Italy. 2009 Four Weddings, a thousand adventures and one goal: to reach the altar and say the auspicious yes. Nicola, a promising cop from Puglia, with a past like that of Don Giovanni, […]
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I CAVALIERI CHE FECERO L’IMPRESA (The Knights of the Quest)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Pupi Avati. Cast: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi. Italy. 2001 A handful of young knights are given the grave responsibility of rescuing one of the most sacred relics in Christianity. In the year 1272, the bloody swath of the Crusades has swept much […]
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PANE E TULIPANI (Bread and Tulips)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Silvio Soldini. Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Vitalba Andrea. Italy. 2000 Rosalba, a bored housewife who lives on the Adriatic coast is on a family’s annual holiday. During the visits she is left behind at a rest stop while the tour bus hurries to […]
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