The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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.
Read moreBased 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.
Read moreAfter 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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Read moreThe latest film by Jonás Trueba—who visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival with his father Fernando in 2016—begins in the... View Article
Read moreAfter Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English.
Read moreItalian 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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