#282 – La Terra Trema, 1948, Luchino Visconti
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Tag: Italy
#288: Rocco and His Brothers
#288 – Rocco and His Brothers, (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), 1960, Luchino Visconti
When a widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals, with deadly results.
#289: Tropical Malady
#289 – Tropical Malady, (สัตว์ประหลาด), 2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
‘Tropical Malady’ explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
#292: L’Eclisse
#292 – L’Eclisse, 1962, Michelangelo Antonioni
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
#303: The Gospel According to Matthew
#303 – The Gospel According to Matthew, (Il vangelo secondo Matteo), 1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
#305: Don’t Look Now
#305 – Don’t Look Now, 1973, Nicolas Roeg
Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
#316: Call Me by Your Name
#316 – Call Me by Your Name, 2017, Luca Guadagnino
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.
#342: Last Year at Marienbad
#342 – Last Year at Marienbad, (L’Année dernière à Marienbad), 1961, Alain Resnais
In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.
#344: The Best of Youth
#344 – The Best of Youth, (La meglio gioventú), 2003, Marco Tullio Giordana
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana’s passionate epic ‘La Meglio Gioventu’ follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
#347: Cléo from 5 to 7
#347 – Cléo from 5 to 7, (Cléo de cinq à sept), 1962, Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
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