The background is that of the Second World Warthe story is dramatically true. Mario is a four-year-old child, the son of the American Lucy (who moved to Italy to fight with the Resistance) and of the aviator Luciano (a rigid fascist, from whom the woman soon separated). Still very young, he finds himself alone, on the run, under the bombings, grappling with dangerous encounters and very poetic friendships.
The project of Roberto Faenzawhich boasts the collaboration of Oscar-winning costume designer Milena Canonero, stages an international cast, from Laura Haddock to Edward Holcroft, to tell with great sensitivity a story that is closer than ever today. The Italians join the foreign artists Francesco Montanari And Rosa Diletta Rossi.
The idea ofviolated childhood seen through collective horrors such as deportation in concentration camps and the war it also explores more delicate and subtle themes, such as mental health.
Without rhetoric or do-gooders, Mario is spared nothing at all, but his talent cannot be obscured forever. This romantic ode to resilience arrives on the big screen with a powerful visual impact capable of leaving you breathless.
The idea of ​​motherhood, loss and abandonment in a teen movie, Love & Gelato (on Netflix from June 22). There training history is declined in the key of comedy. The feature film, based on the novel of the same name, tells Italy amalgamating common places to surprises and discoveries.
Lina (Susanna Skaggs) is a recent American graduate who flies to Rome to discover the past of her mother, who has just died. The woman entrusts her secret diary as a girl of hers to the best friend of her time, Francesca (Valentina Lodovini) and it is she, a bit dazed and a bit messy, who acts as the girl’s guide. Lina is introverted and shy, but her mother sends her alone to the other side of the ocean to come out of her shell and explore the world. That of the beautiful country, of course, between ice creams And maritozzibut that too inner.
And so, as soon as she arrives, Lina runs into two fascinating but very different peers: Lorenzo (Tobia De Angelis, Matilda’s brother) dreams of a future as a chef and rolls up his sleeves as a student-worker, while Alessandro (Saul Nanni ) comes from a wealthy family with a career already planned. Between a walk on the cobblestones and the next, secrets, lies and half-truths will come out.
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