A left and a right arm come together in the center of the image, and both start writing, in Italian, the date on a wall: "oggi è venerdì ventisette marzo millenovecentosettanta" (today is Friday the nineteenth of March nineteen seventy). The left is the mirror image of the right.
A left and a right arm come together in the center of the image, and both start writing, in Italian, the date on a wall: "oggi è venerdì ventisette marzo millenovecentosettanta" (today is Friday the nineteenth of March nineteen seventy). The left is the mirror image of the right.
On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.