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A Dinner for Them to Meet
Italy, 2006, 108 min.
This Cannes Film Festival winner features a family of three, who were abandoned by the wife/mother of the family. When she returns unexpectedly, the son, Tommy, along with his sister Viola and their father, try to cope with unexpected changes and growing pains with determination and unspoken love fo... more
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The Caiman
Italy, 2006, 112 min.
Nanni Moretti returns to directing with this hugely entertaining and politically charged skewering of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that centers on a crumbling B-grade film director (Silvio Orlando) trying to make a satire about the PM’s criminal excesses.... more
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A Casa Nostra
Italy, 2006, 101 min.
A banker who is pursued by a police captain is at the center of a merry-go-round of characters whose fates are intertwined in contemporary Milan where money and power rules.... more
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Cover Boy
Italy, 2006, 97 min.
Cover Boy is the story of a friendship between two young men—a Romanian immigrant and an Italian lower-class worker—who struggle to find gainful employment in Western society. One has a dream to pursue, while the other has lost all hopes. Friendship will help them through, somehow. ... more
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Crime Novel
Italy, 2006, 146 min.
A sweeping epic Italian crime saga (with appropriate nods to Coppola and Scorsese by the screenwriters of '04 PSIFF audience-award winner Best of Youth) chronicles the rise of a criminal from a juvenile delinquent dreaming of power inmthe '70s, to a national public enemy running the organized... more
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The Family Friend
Italy, 2006, 110 min.
A harsh near-nihilism pervades the singular vision of director Paolo Sorrentino in this morally dark tale. Geremia de’ Geremei is a shabby loan shark who professes a deep (and deeply false) concern for the poor people who use his services. The film exposes the damage done by his squalid, soul-disfig... more
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Forget You Not
Italy, 2006, 94 min.
The first feature film of Mariantonia Avati, daughter of Pupi Avati, continues the father’s tradition with a feminine approach. Nina works in a maternity ward in post-WWII Italy where women from different backgrounds are united by motherhood. For Nina, each story becomes a source from which she will... more
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The Golden Door
Italy, 2006, 112 min.
A turn-of-the-century rural Sicilian family embarks on a difficult journey to Ellis Island and to modernity, leaving behind their homes and possessions in the hopes of securing a better tomorrow in a land purportedly flowing with milk and honey, in this imaginative and intelligent film.... more
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I Only Wanted to Live
Italy, 2006, 75 min.
Drawing on the extensive archives of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, director Mimmo Calopresti has crafted a straightforward, yet deeply affecting portrait of what happened to Italy's Jews. The eyewitness accounts are told with a searing intensity, each a unique and necessary testimony.... more
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The Missing Star
Italy, 2006, 103 min.
Gianni Amelio’s latest film presents an idealistic Italian machinist who finds his worldview altered when he travels with a young female guide into the heart of China’s new industrial landscape in an effort to replace defective technology. The story is a moving narrative regarding the evolving... more
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The Moon and the Stars
Italy, 2007, 102 min.
Jonathan Pryce, Catherine McCormack and Alfred Molina star in John Irvin’s classical drama that throws a disparate group of actors and filmmakers together to try and film a version of Tosca in the Rome of 1939, despite the growing portents of war.... more
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Salty Air
Italy, 2006, 87 min.
Fabio is a social assistant in a Roman prison. When a new prisoner arrives, he recognizes his father who abandoned the family when he was a kid. From that moment on he has to reconsider his relationship with his father figure.... more
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La Terra
Italy, 2006, 112 min.
When an exiled son, Luigi, returns to his home in Southern Italy from Milan, he finds himself trapped by a murder mystery in which his brothers turn out to be the prime suspects, Luigi must become the detective in order to get the heart of this surprising whodunit.... more
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The Tiger and the Snow
Italy, 2006, 115 min.
Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) plays an effusive poet who travels to Iraq right after the American invasion to rescue his beloved, who has been wounded in the war. His slapstick, absurd antics—obliviously walking through checkpoints and mine fields—highlight the war’s absurdity.... more
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Waves
Italy, 2005, 94 min.
Debuting writer/director Francisco Fei uses a nonchronological structure, woven with dreams and memories, to give an impressionistic picture of the relationship between Luka, a blind atonal musician and Francesca, a woman whose face is marred by a large birthmark on her cheek. Their successes and fa... more
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