italian
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QUIET CHAOS
One doesn’t usually associate Italians with restraint, but in this enchanting movie from 2008 that I have just come across, they are just exactly that in the telling of this wee drama about surviving a death in a family. In a bizarre coincidence when Pietro returns from the beach with his brother after they…
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LOOSE CANNONS aka MINE VAGANTI
The Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown up sons Antonio and Tommaso to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part if it as he wants to be a writer and return home to Rome to…
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I Am Love
In this saga of the Recchi dynasty, who are one of the leading aristocratic families in Milan, we see a way of life that is fading like its dying patriarch as they struggle to come to terms with contemporary society. As wealthy as they are. and waited on hand and foot at every juncture,…
