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1) Tickets
Language
Italiano
Description
In this anthology film, an elderly businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he meets a younger woman who arranges his train ticket after his flight is canceled. A young man is torn between an older woman who controls him and a younger one that attracts him. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture when they meet an Albanian family. In each...
Language
Italiano
Description
Andrea, a 50-year old architect and recent widower, is granted a new lease on life after meeting Rosanna, an anesthesiologist at the local hospital. Rosanna is married to the much younger Riccardo, an aspiring writer. Andrea introduces Riccardo to a restaurant owner and his lovely sister Hikma. Andrea soon discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo's child. Recognizing the difficulties Hikma and Riccardo face, Andrea offers to help the couple...
3) Sicilia!
Language
Italiano
Description
Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura of a Caravaggio painting in this masterful film. A tragicomedy involving an orange peddler, an Italian recently returned from America, two 'stinky' police officers, a guilt-stricken landowner, a traveling knife sharpener and, perhaps most unforgettably, an indomitable peasant mother who reminisces about meals of snails and wild...
Language
Italiano
Description
After the funeral of his daughter Anna, Armando announces his return in a brief phone call. Iris, Anna's mother, convinces Sofia to wait for Armando at a villa with her and her sister-in-law Clara but doesn't realize that Sofia was Anna's girlfriend. The following day, Letizia and Dario arrive at the villa: Letizia is the ex-wife of Armando, Dario is Armando's eldest son. The days pass but Armando never arrives: the wait becomes disconcerting; the...