Giovanna Cau

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life

A brief tribute to the grat director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...

다리가 조금 불편한 공대생 톰마소(세르지오 루비니 분)는 강의를 마치고 늦게 돌아오는 길에 횡단보도에서 갑자기 뛰어든 금발의 여인을 자동차로 치게 된다. 가벼운 외상을 입은 그녀는 바로 병원으로 실려가고 이에 걱정된 톰마소는 병원으로 찾아간다. 그리고 다음날 비온다라는 이름의 그녀가 그의 집을 찾아와 자신이 누군지도 모른다며 자신의 기억상실증을 호소하면서 도와 줄 것을 간곡히 부탁한다. 그녀의 잊혀진 기억을 되찾기 위해 둘이는 사고 현장을 하나씩 더듬어 가지만 번번히 실패로 끝난다. 톰마소와 비온다는 서로 사랑을 하게 되고 즐거운 나날을 보낸다. 어느날 길을 걷다가 갑자기 기억을 되찾게 된 그녀는 말 한마디 없이 톰마소를 떠나 버린다. 그녀를 잊지 못하는 톰마소는 그녀가 주고간 시계의 이니셜로 전화번호를 찾아내 전화를 걸지만 그녀는 냉냉하기만 하는데.