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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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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SE DEVO ESSERE SINCERA (To be honest)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Davide Ferrario. Cast: Luciana Littizzetto, Dino Abbrescia, Neri Marcore, Donatella Finocchiaro. Italia. 2004 Adelaide is a college teacher married to Renzo (who has been unfaithful to her) and they have an eight year old daughter called Livietta. When one of her colleagues is found murdered, the investigation […]
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