CATERINA VA IN CITTÀ (Caterina in the big City)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Paolo Virzì. Cast: Mario Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Claudio Amendola. Italy. 2002 Caterina is a teenager, living in a small rural community. Her life is turned upside down when her irascible school teacher father decides to move the family to Rome, to live in his old home. […]
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RESPIRO (The Sigh)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Emanuele Crialese. Cast: Valeria Golino, Vicenzo Amato, Veronica D’Agostino, Filippo Pucillo. Italy. 2002 Grazia is deeply committed to her husband Pietro and their children, as well as stray dogs. She suffers from extreme mood swings that result in serious physical attacks in times of high anxiety. […]
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LA STRADA (The Road)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Federico Fellini. Cast: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Marcella Rovena, Livia Venturini. Italy. 1954 Her very poor mother sells Gelsomina, a carefree girl, to Zampano, an itinerant strongman. Gelsomina follows him on the road, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain all along the way and […]
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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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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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