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Criterion collection volume 702
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For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome itself,...
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"Guido, a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia, a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn"--Container.
6) The Wonders
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12-year-old Gelsomina comes of age on her family's beekeeping farm in rural Italy. Despite efforts to preserve their pastoral existence, modern life intervenes by way of a TV contest & the arrival of a juvenile delinquent.
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Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations...
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The story of Valeriano Falsini, a man full of dreams and expectations who, in the post-war period, wants to get out of the flat provincial life and become someone thanks to his sporting talent. His many amateur victories led him to join Costante Girardengo's team in 1950. During a training session he meets Fausto Coppi, who wants him in Bianchi the following year. But fate holds something different for him, that dream touches him without being able...
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Swan Company volume 1
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Matteo moves to Milan to attend the prestigious Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory.
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Gaetano, a quiet young man, lives near the bedside of his father and works alone to manage the family bakery. Although his French baguettes are well liked, as the Paris-born son of a Sicilian mother and French father, the village has never accepted him. When his wastrel elder brother dies committing a crime that results in the death of two others, Gaetano assumes his family responsibility to bury him next to their mother. But in this village, the...
11) Troubling Love
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What happened to Amalia and who was with her the night she died? Her daughter Delia travels home to Naples for her funeral to piece together the answers and confront her childhood memories.
12) The Islands
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Ivan is desperate due to lack of work. One day, looking for a job, he arrives at an island where he finds himself stuck, penniless and unable to return home, namely the squalid apartment he shares with his sick father. When help arrives, almost magically, he meets a mute young woman, Martina. In Italian with English subtitles. Starring Asia Argento, Ivan Franek, and Giorgio Colangeli.
13) Coffee
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Belgium: A pawnshop owner has his precious coffee pot stolen during a violent street riot. He decides to seek revenge, only to become a victim. Italy: A passionate coffee sommelier is trying to make this a proper profession but his past is fighting him. China: A successful young manager marries the boss's daughter and all seems perfect, until his job requires him to move back to his birthplace.
14) Fondi
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Fondi '91 is a drama that follows the lustful adventures of Anil and his Jersey-based high school soccer team's two-week trip to the town of Fondi, Italy for a championship game.
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Promised Life volume 1
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Carmela Carrizzo agrees to marry an American by proxy so she can flee Sicily with her family.
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Swan Company volume 10
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Rosario suffers from the difficulties of his relationship with Anna.
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Swan Company volume 6
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Domenico suffers from the sudden departure of Barbara.
18) Despite the Fog
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Ali-Musa Sarhana a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and asort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark.
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The focus of Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto for Così fan tutte is on female infidelity, two partner-swapping couples and a wager. Its enigmatic ambiguity and lightness of touch, its razor's edge balance between irony and empathy, detachment and involvement, and on-stage reality and illusion is structured with perfect Classical symmetry. More than any other opera it explores the depths and darker impulses of the experience of love. This production by...
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