EF FILM STUDY
| Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) |
This film is based on a 1945 book about the experience of exile as a Northern Italian becomes aware of life in the South.
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| Days and Clouds (Giorni e nuvole) |
In today's world what could be more timely than a well-to-do, middle-age couple's struggle with a husband losing his job and an unsuccessful job hunt to find another position. The experience is real, the emotion raw, their separation inevitable, and much more...
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| I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura) |
The film is loosely based on the true story of a 1978 kidnapping of a boy from Milan that Italian novelist Niccolò Ammaniti wrote about in his best-selling novel by the same title.
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| Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella) |
This film showcases both a human and humorous look at a parent’s challenge to raise a boy under Fascism.
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| The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) |
This six-hour Italian family saga traces 40 years of Italian social history through the lives of two brothers and their family beginning in 1966 through present day.
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| The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) |
This film portrays a closely knit Italian family whose lives become shattered with the death of their teenage son.
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ITALIAN DVDS
| Bread & Tulips (Pane e tulipani) |
Caterina In the Big City (Caterina va in città) |
A light-hearted story of a housewife from Pescara, Italy as she comes to terms with her unhappy life and finds new beginnings through an unplanned visit to Venice. The film offers many funny moments as well as numerous insights into Italian culture.
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A family emigrates from the suburbs to the big city and we experience the challenges first hand of this change through the eyes of 12-year-old Caterina.
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Ciao, Professore! |
Cinema Paradiso |
A teacher from Northern Italy is assigned to an elementary school in the South and faces the daunting task of teaching poor children who are hardened by their urban environment and uninterested in learning.
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Salvatore, the film's central character, prompts us relive childhood movie experiences while giving us a remarkable insight into Italian culture in the mid-20th century.
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| Golden Door (Nuovomondo) |
Good Morning Night (Buongiorno notte) |
This film portrays the moving story of immigrant journeys across the Atlantic: the decision to leave Italy, the journey itself in steerage class, and the arrival at Ellis Island.
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This film brings to life the social and political upheavals that rocked Italy in the ‘60s and ‘70s by recreating the incredible kidnapping and murder of Italy’s famed Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigade in 1978.
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Kaos |
Lamerica |
This film is about four separate tales of Sicilian life: one of a Sicilian mother longing for her two sons who emigrated to Sante Fe; another concerns a lonely bride; the third, fanciful and allegorical, reflects a wealthy landowner's hold over villagers, and the last is of a village elder and his burial plot.
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This moving drama takes place in 1991 and shows that despite political changes and power redistributions those at the bottom of society continued to be exploited.
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Pinocchio |
Remember Me My Love (Ricordati di me) |
Despite guidance from the Blue Fairy, and the love of his father, Gepetto, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.
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This film portrays an urban, middle-class, contemporary Italian family obsessed with their unsatisfying professional lives and inner restlessness.
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| The Last Kiss (L'ultimo bacio) |
The Postman (Il postino) |
A young couple who've been living together decide to marry upon learning they will soon have a child. The idea of marriage suddenly becomes a huge, scary commitment to the future bridegroom.
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This award-winning film is adapted from a noel by David Brin and is set on an island off the coast of Italy. The mailman longs for the heart of a beautiful waitress and with the help of exiled Chilean poet Pable Neruda, he acquires lessons on love, life and poetry.
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| The Three Brothers (I tre fratelli) |
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The film goes from extreme misery to a tentative sense of hope in three parts each devoted to one of the brothers.
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