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An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
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A famous Italian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown after an absence of 30 years. Upon his return, he reconnects with the community and remembers the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Includes Theatrical and Director's Cut versions of the film.
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Arturo and Alessandro have been a couple for over fifteen years. Even though their passion and love have formed a close and important affection, their relationship has been in crisis for a long time. The sudden arrival of two children, left in their care for a few days by Annamaria Alessandro₂s best friend, could give an unexpected turn to their tired routine. The solution will be a crazy departure for them both. But on the other hand, love is a...
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With a lavish home and beautiful wife, hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi seemingly has it all Meanwhile, real-estate agent Dino Ossola struggles to maintain his family's middle-class existance and faces even worse financial straits when his wife announces that she is pregnant with twins. Leveraging his daughter's relationships with Giovanni's son, Dino deceives the bank and manipulates his way into the Bernaschie hedge fund. As the destinies of...
9) Le amiche
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Criterion collection volume 817
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A young woman returns to her home town of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
10) Il sorpasso
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Criterion collection volume 707
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A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
12) Like crazy
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Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in the open-air nuthouse; the world of sane people.
14) Cinema Paradiso
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Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo, who was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso. To the fatherless young boy Alfredo became a father figure who guided and loved him.
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Care lettrici, cari lettori, provate a leggere questo libro e vorrete che non finisca mai. Elena Ferrante, con il suo nuovo romanzo, torna a sorprenderci, a spiazzarci, regalandoci una narrazione-fiume cui ci si affida come quando si fa un viaggio con un tale piacevole agio, con un tale intenso coinvolgimento, che la meta più è lontana e meglio è. L'autrice abbandona la piccola, densa storia privata e si dedica a un vasto progetto di scrittura...
16) Dreaming Alaska
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Alan and Thomas are bored with their lives. One is a geologist, but works at a university where the director refuses to finance his once-in-a-lifetime Alaska mission. The other directs a TV talk show that's about to be canceled. They both need a change. Stop dreaming, start living!
17) Don't be bad
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A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenty, act in search of their success.
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Le due protagoniste Lina (o Lila) ed Elena (o Lenù) sono ormai adulte, con alle spalle delle vite piene di avvenimenti, scoperte, cadute e “rinascite”. Ambedue hanno lottato per uscire dal rione natale, una prigione di conformismo, violenze e legami difficili da spezzare. Elena è diventata una scrittrice affermata, ha lasciato Napoli, si è sposata e poi separata, ha avuto due figlie e ora torna a Napoli per inseguire un amore giovanile che...
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Elena e Lila, le due amiche la cui storia i lettori hanno imparato a conoscere attraverso L'amica geniale e Storia del nuovo cognome, sono diventate donne. Lo sono diventate molto presto: Lila si è sposata a sedici anni, ha un figlio piccolo, ha lasciato il marito e l'agiatezza, lavora come operaia in condizioni durissime; Elena è andata via dal rione, ha studiato alla Normale di Pisa e ha pubblicato un romanzo di successo che le ha aperto le porte...
20) Il sorpasso
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Criterion collection volume 707
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Italiano
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A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careens from slapstick to tragedy.--Abridged from container.
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