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Pane e cioccolata – Bread and Chocolate (Franco Brussati – 1974)

Shlomi Ron — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:06:23 +0000

In this film, director Franco Brusati brings to life a common theme in 70’s cinema, packaged in commedia all’italiana film genre ; the struggle to find your own identity in a foreign land. It’s a universal theme we can find in today’s challenges of immigrants. Idyllic park scene where poor Nino eats his sandwich: a bread [...]

La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini -1962)

Shlomi Ron — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:45:08 +0000

Right from the choice of the title – The Ricotta – Pasolini kicks off an onslaught of symbols to convey his dissatisfaction with the dull consumerism of Italian society during the economic boom of early 60’s. To his belief, the government along with the church banded together to exploit the poor. A prophet ahead of [...]

From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’insolito ignoto – Vita acrobatica di Tiberio Murgia (Sergio Naitza – 2012)

Shlomi Ron — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:05:08 +0000

For my day 2 in Rome’s International Film Festival I picked a documentary film by Sergio Naitza, under the Documentary track out of the competition. We’re all too accustomed to be exposed to the lives of the A-stars like Marcello Mastroianni, and Sophia Loren, I figured the story behind an actor forever in a supporting [...]

From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’Isola Dell’Angello Caduto – The Island of the Fallen Angel (Carlo Lucarelli – 2012)

Shlomi Ron — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:58:35 +0000

Waiting for first screening of “L’isola dell’angelo caduto” by Carlo Lucarelli @ Rome Film Festival. From the rich program of the festival, I picked the debut film of director Carlo Lucarelli, famous for his TV documentary series about crime: Blu notte misteri d’Italia. The name of the film derives from an ancient story that when [...]