Category: Podcast: Cinema Italiano
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#45: Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Set in central Italy, a young man navigates worlds both agrarian and metropolitan, past and future, just out of place in any setting.
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#44: Io capitano (Matteo Garrone, 2023)
Two Senegalese teenagers set out for a new life in Italy in this modern-day Odyssey, framing the immigrant experience as a classical yet contemporary epic.
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#43: The 35th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
Recap on the Italian films featured: “Io capitano,” “La chimera,” and “Kidnapped.”
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#42: The 59th Chicago International Film Festival
Recap of the Italian films featured at the festival, including reviews of “Kidnapped” and “The Beautiful Summer.”
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#41: The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)
An epic, emotional story of a lifelong friendship between two men, one from the city and one from the mountains.
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#40: The 49th Annual Seattle International Film Festival
Recap & reviews of the Italian films featured at the festival, including “The Hummingbird” and “L’immensita’.”
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#39: Naples in Veils (Ferzan Özpetek, 2017)
The past is ever-present when a medical examiner is caught in the middle of a murder mystery.
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#38: The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
This moving drama explores a happy family shifting from a singular unit to separate individuals.
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#37: Le pupille (Alice Rohrwacher, 2022)
An all-girls school is shaken by the prospect of a beautiful cake – an extravagant, tempting indulgence in an era of rationing and sacrifice.