Olimpia Carlisi

사랑받는 것만이 유일한 꿈인 아홉 살 소녀 아리아는 이혼한 부모의 집 사이를 오가며 밤 거리를 공기처럼 부유한다. 유명 피아니스트인 엄마는 아름다운 외모를 치장하고 방탕한 생활을 하며 자신의 연애사에만 관심을 쏟고, 인기 배우인 아빠는 자신의 커리어를 최우선으로 생각하며 미신에 집착한다. 철없고 이기적인 언니들과 자신을 이해해주지 못하는 사람들 사이에서 가장 친한 친구 안젤리카와 수호천사인 고양이 ‘닥’에게 의지하던 아리아는 오로지 사랑받기 위해 큰 결심을 하게 되는데…….

지오반나의 인생에는 두 명의 남자가 있다 고단한 결혼생활을 보내고 있는 지오반나에게는 비밀이 하나 있다. 창문 너머, 맞은편 집의 남자를 향해 품고있는 은밀한 감정이 바로 그것. 남편과 두 아이를 재우고 매일밤 그녀는 자신과는 정반대의 삶을 살고 있는 멋진 그를 바라보며 하루를 살아갈 힘을 얻는다. 우연은 만남을, 만남은 인생을 바꾸어 버리는데… 어느 날, 남편은 길을 잃어버린 노인을 집에 데려온다. 기억하는 것은 시모네란 이름뿐인 노인은 지오반나의 고단한 인생에 새로 생긴 짐일 뿐이다. 하지만 노인의 실종이라는 우연한 기회로 지오반나는 바라만 보던 맞은편 집 남자와 이야기를 나누게 되고, 로렌조라는 이름의 그 남자 역시 자신을 바라보고 있었다고 털어놓는데…

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.

젊은 미국인 발레리나가 헝가리의 명문 발레학교에 등록한다. 그녀는 갑자기 차이코프스키의 백조 호수에 대해 이상하리만치 집착하게 되고 성격이 완전히 변하게 된다. 그녀와 사랑에 빠진 젊은 남자가 그것에 대해 조사를 하는데...

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

Nina, young girl from the provinces discovering the capital, meets people by chance, and carries out apprenticeship of the theatre and love. Paulot first of all, reassuring figure of an ordinary man, solid as a rock. Then Quentin, a fallen actor tormented by a past drama, violent as lightning. Finally, Scrutzler, an inflexible and exhausted director who chooses Nina, throws her on the stage. A revelation is born through these three meetings. But, it is with herself that Nina has an appointment.

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.

Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.

비싼 와인과 음식이 가득한 테이블이지만 실상은 비어있다. 쇠퇴하는 진보 지 식인들이 초상, 특정 사회 계층의 행동에 관한 달콤 쌉쌀한 이야기에 여전히 현대적인 분위기, 우울, 친절, 열광이 담겨있다.

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)

유럽 각지를 떠돌며 모든 계층의 여성들과 관계를 맺은 귀족 카사노바는 열정의 흔적을 찾아볼 수 없는 차가운 여성 편력만을 가진 인물. 르네상스 시대 부르주아들의 아름답고 엽기적인 호색취향의 세계를 재현해낸 펠리니 후기 걸작.

An Italian film

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Directed by José Varela

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia’s daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother Daniel attempt to relieve Olympia’s grief from the imminent loss of the child.

1944년경 지중해를 배경으로 다양한 조종사들의 이야기를 그리고 있다. 그 중에는 승자와 패자가 있고, 기회주의자가 있으며 끝까지 살아남는 생존자가 있다. 전쟁의 와중에 저마다 각양각색의 일을 겪으면서 충돌하는 이들은 모두들 제정신이 아닌 것처럼 보이기도 한다.