After a lifetime of hard work, the aging widower Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) decides to sell his bakery business, but cuts his three adult children (the weak-willed Pippo, the womanising gambler Mario and the spouse of a government employee Teta) out of his will completely, leaving them with no promise of a future inheritance.
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Based on a story by Heinrich Böll and his own experiences, this political drama tells the nightmare of an innocent young woman in the clutches of the police and the media.
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Italian director Laura Bispuri’s (b. 1977) third feature film takes place on the outskirts of Rome in the cold of... View Article
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Based on Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical 1962 novel of the same name, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis tells the story of an affluent Jewish family living in Ferrara at the time of the rise of fascism.
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Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is one of the best films of 2013, even though its distribution has mostly been... View Article
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At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 Jean-Luc Godard praised three directors: Samira Makhmalbaf, Aki Kaurismäki, and Alain Guiraudie, whose... View Article
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The 1980s saw a massive resurgence in London literature.
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It's curious that the short film The Carfax Fragment is almost never shown, considering that it investigates Purfleet where Dracula bought the manor from whence he set out to spread terror and unleash desires.
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A writer must live the content of their work, not just write it. This is the protagonist’s view in the... View Article
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Although there are hundreds if not thousands of film festivals in the world, Peter von Bagh’s documentary about the first... View Article
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