Minervini’s work about the real America i.e. the disturbia of the working-class provokes with its sheer no-bullshit honesty, with an invisible camera that gives zero distinction between drama and documentary.
Risi elevates the Italian comedy to stratospheric heights in this absolute classic of a buddy road movie with two exceptional performances from Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant, as it deals with themes of freedom, hedonism and consequences.
An African migrant crisis film shot as a harrowing adventure—it may not be particularly rewarding but it is a very good entry point for casual moviegoers hoping to better understand the journeys these desperate people take to reach Europe.
Words have little meaning but faces bear the truth in Antonioni’s remarkable treatise on modern alienation and ennui as it follows a well-to-do couple facing a sinking marriage on an afternoon and night out.
A ragtag group of grave robbers leads the way in Rohrwacher’s continuously inventive and occasionally sublime film, about the desires of humans to continue searching for existential meaning in both physical and metaphysical realms.
A former Nazi and concentration camp survivor inadvertently meet and rekindle their sadomasochistic desire for each other in this controversial work that feels somewhat uncompelling from moment to moment.
Antonioni brings his enigmatic style to striking locales around Europe and Africa in this tour de force work about identities and personas.
Antonioni plays with colour and sound design, creating a hypnotic take on the perils of human alienation amid technological progress.
The unresolved childhood grief of losing one’s mother is given a quiet, sentimental treatment by Bellocchio whose film is polished enough though it falls short of being truly insightful.
A milestone in European art cinema, and an intentionally futile exercise in finding meaning in our seemingly meaningless existence.
Eternality Tan 