by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with efficacy how gambling can engage human kind, when he said “But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.” In a world where the roulette and cards have now found a virtual form, casinos are  [ Read More ]

 by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI, i.e. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano,) celebrates 100 years since its foundation. The organisation that dates back to 1914, and is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy, embracing 45 national sports federations,  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Set in Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century, The Sound and the Fury portrays the decline and fall of the Compsons, a once proud, aristocratic Southern family. Translating William Faulkner’s famously challenging experimental prose into the language of cinema, The Sound and the Fury reveals the secrets and betrayals that have tarnished  [ Read More ]

Synopsis One day, one life. Rome, the night of November 2nd 1975, the great Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered. Pasolini is the symbol of an art that’s fighting against the power. His writings are scandalous, his films are persecuted by the censors, many people love him and many hate him. The  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Burying the Ex follows Max, all-around nice guy and classic movie buff, and his overbearing but incredibly sexy girlfriend, Evelyn. Their relationship takes a nosedive after Max invites Evelyn to move in and she turns out to be a controlling, manipulative nightmare. Max realizes it’s time to call it quits, but he doesn’t want  [ Read More ]

Synopsis When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th Symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his mother, for Luna whom he has fallen in love with, Victor has decided  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die. Meanwhile, a school play dominates the background as Aslan is disappointed in losing  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Like modern times’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy that is in us, life’s grandeur as well as frailty  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Giacomo Leopardi is a child prodigy who grows up under the stern gaze of his father, in a house that is a library. His mind roams but the house is a prison: he reads everything, but the world is outside. In Europe things are changing, revolutions are breaking out, and Giacomo desperately tries to  [ Read More ]

Synopsis Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe. On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor Seligman finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he  [ Read More ]