Shot over three years in the Middle East, Rosi’s beautiful and graceful documentary pits the human desire for normalcy against the unending cycles of death and destruction.
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Notturno (2020)
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Tag / Italy
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Fire at Sea (2016)
A deserving Golden Berlin Bear winner that powerfully documents the troubling migrant crisis from the vantage point of an Italian island and her life-goes-on inhabitants.
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Sacro GRA (2013)
Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.
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Sicily! (1999)
A more accessible Straub-Huillet work than usual, focusing on a man who returns to Sicily and the artfully-staged conversations he has with various people in his journey.
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Traitor, The (2019)
The 80-year-old Bellocchio’s history-based Mafia-cum-courtroom biopic boasts a strong lead performance despite the fairly conventional narrative structure.
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Vincere (2009)
Despite ending rather abruptly, this is a generally intriguing fictional retelling of Mussolini’s private life and affair with the ill-fated Ida Dalser.
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China Is Near (1967)
A rather overdrawn Italian drama with stark humour by the great Bellocchio that fuses everything from Socialist politics, class system, sexual affairs and the Church that it gets heady at times.
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
One might disengage with its paganistic and hedonistic excess, but Fellini’s visionary work loosely based on Petronius’ Roman satire is a one-of-a-kind aural-visual extravaganza.
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Amarcord (1973)
This beautiful ode to the colourful and warm life of ’30s Italy is as culturally rich and free-spirited as Fellini has ever done.
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8½ (1963)
Fellini’s mastery of form and style is there for all to revel in this autobiographical film about the psychological crisis of a film director.
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