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Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Margherita Buy, Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Duration: 100 mins
Year: 2010
Happy Family tells the story of two families whose lives are thrown together when their two headstrong fifteen-year olds announce their intent to marry.
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Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee
Duration: 185'
Year: 1960
Marcello Rubini is a frustrated writer who is reduced to tabloid journalism in order to make ends meet. He spends every evening in Via Veneto - the venerable hotspot for people who want to be seen. The film follows the unique journey of the street's most colourful characters. Soon the empty evenings weave together into decadent rhythm, punctuated only by the following morning's regret. A series of disparate episodes skillfully sewn together, La dolce vita remains one of Fellini's most immediately recognisable films, and a fascinating insight into Rome's "sweet life".
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Director: Renato De Maria
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fabrizio Rongione
Duration: 96'
Year: 2009
The Front Line is loosely based on the memoirs of Sergio Segio, the former "Commander Sirio" of the armed communist organization Prima Linea (“Front Line”), who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of judge Emilio Alessandrini in 1979. In 1982, Segio (Riccardo Scamarcio) and his friends attacked the women’s prison of Rovigo to free terrorist Susanna Ronconi (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). The cold but enduring love story between the two communist “revolutionaries” rounds out this story: love and death traverse the entire film, without romanticism but, rather, with a cold realism.
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Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
Cast: Valeria Golino, Valerio Mastandrea, Sonia Bergamasco
Duration: 105'
Year: 2009
Coasting through both his life and his career, novelist Guido (Valerio Mastandrea) is nominated for a major literary award. He has got a pretty wife, Benedetta, and an adolescent daughter, Costanza, but he is finding it difficult to connect with them. While they move to a new place, he stays in their old apartment to work on his next novel.
Giulia (Valeria Golino) teaches swimming at a pool. One of her pupils is the young daughter of Guido.
When they meet at the pool Guido gets intrigued by this charming woman who keeps initially a certain distance, because Giulia hides a secret and a mysterious past.
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Director: Francesca Comencini
Cast: Margherita Buy, Salvatore Cantalupo, Guido Caprino
Duration: 98'
Year: 2009
A middle-aged, somewhat footloose teacher becomes pregnant from a short-lived affair, gives birth to a premature baby, and finds her life revolving around her hopes and fears for the tiny child. Countless films have been made about men who run from impending fatherhood or don't want children. Few, however, tackle those feelings in women without judging them their lack of maternal instinct. Francesca Comencini's "The White Space" does just that, taking for granted that there is nothing wrong with an independent woman spurning motherhood.
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Director: Fausto Brizzi
Cast: Claudio Bisio, Claudia Gerini, Vincenzo Salemme
Duration: 120'
Year: 2009
Juggling multiple storylines with aplomb, this mostly comic study of the vagaries of romantic entanglement focuses on six different couples and the ups and downs of their relationships. From a divorce attorney going through a brutal break-up with his wife, to a French youngster smitten with his Italian girlfriend, to a handsome cop stalking his former lover, cowriter/director Brizzi presents a wide variety of idiosyncratic characters looking for love. With a grand assembly of noteworthy actors including Alessandro Gassman, Cécile Cassel, and Silvio Orlando, this charming film suggests that there is an ex in everyone’s past who can’t—or won’t—be forgotten.
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