Critical Passion studies the relationship between critics and authors in the history of Italian cinema in relation to the history of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI), since its founding act in 1971. It is a non-secondary path in Italian cultural history, traced thanks to the interventions of prestigious witnesses and the editing of archive material, from the 1960s to the advent of the web and social networks and the current explosion of the audiovisual sector, which questions the very definition and boundaries of cinema.
Lucy is a 95-year-old lady. In her apartment, photos turned yellow by the passing time tell the adolescence of a boy who at the time was called Luciano and who was going to live the most terrible period of his life. Lucy is the oldest transsexual woman in Italy. She is among the few survivors of Dachau's concentration camp. Lucy's story tells us the story of the 1900s. The events of her turbulent life become a metaphor for a humanity that does not give up and that treasures the most important gift in history, memory, as a unique and irreplaceable starting point.
Женщина и ее десятилетний сын каждый по-своему переживают смерть мужа и отца, погибшего в результате несчастного случая на заводе. А вокруг – суета, соболезнования родственников, друзей, коллег и десяток важных дел, которые являются неотъемлемой частью траурных церемоний.
Остия, предместья Рима, 1995 год. Здесь живут Чезаре и Витторио, два друга детства, оба выходцы из небогатых семей, которые живут, ударяясь в крайности, проводят свои дни и ночи между ночными клубами, наркотиками, алкоголем. Каждый из них ищет успеха, но, как показывают дальнейшие события, для каждого из них этот самый успех заключается в совсем разных вещах.
Producer Alfredo Bini's life told through interviews with many of the people who knew him but, mostly, from the point of view of the hotel owner who put him up for the last 10 years of his life, when he was broke and homeless
