In the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign of the 1828 uprisings, three Southern Italian young people whose families are involved decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy movement. In the course of four episodes, each corresponding to a little-known page from the history of Italian unification, the lives of Domenico, Angelo and Salvatore are tragically marked by their mission as conspirators and revolutionaries, leading to an existence suspended between moral rigour and murderous instinct, spirit of sacrifice and fear. (~europeanfilmawards.eu)Read More »
Andrea Bosca
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Mario Martone – Noi credevamo AKA We Believed (2010)
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Matteo Rovere – Gli sfiorati AKA Drifters (2011)
2011-2020ComedyDramaItalyMatteo RovereBased on the novel 1990 novel “Gli sfiorati” by Sandro Veronesi; the story of an existential drama where the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it’s an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte’s father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. The movies revolves around an impossible love affair, that between a half-brother and a half-sister, and is made up of characters who are lost, tormented, aimless, against the background of a Rome that is chaotic, arrogant, immersed in its ruins and its social routines.Read More »