These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese's abstract, philosophical work.
Elvira La Farina
En la Italia de la inmediata posguerra, un grupo de gente que ha perdido todo lo que poseía durante el conflicto, sobrevive en un pueblo en ruinas. Tratan de levantar la ciudad de las ruinas y reiniciar su vida, a imitación de las mujeres de Messina que reconstruyeron la ciudad, devastada por un terremoto. Oscilando entre el respeto y la sospecha, la coexistencia entre los miembros del grupo es tensa. Las cosas se complican cuando un eviado del gobierno llega para decirles que nada de lo que tienen les pertenece. La película es una libre adaptación de fragmentos de la novela Las mujeres de Messina, del escritor siciliano Elio Vitorini.
Elvira La Farina
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.
Moglie del venditore di arance
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
