Monday 16th – Archivio RIFF

Cockatoo

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:20:45 +0000

On the sixth month anniversary of his break-up with his ex-girlfriend, Michael decides to celebrate by ordering a girl from an agency and tries to recreate his failed relationship. Sometimes it’s best to let sleeping birds lie

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Canepazzo

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:20:04 +0000

Crazy dog, a serial killer of the 80s, who seems killing randomly. Marco Costa, son of one the victims, decides to investigate on his father’s murder. Crazy dog was suicide or the truth is more complicated than that?

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Mai Senza – La Sessualità alla Terza Età

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:00:10 +0000

Never Without is a documentary film that, through the combination of drama and comedy, speaks about the sexuality in old age. Famous and not famous names are mixed in this survey, it’s developed “on the road”, in senior citizen’s centers, in people’s houses; the aim is to try to understand if and how our grandparents make love. Secrets, confessions, intimate moments and amazing characters, it is ideal for both crying and laughing about sex and age. Interviews to: Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Sandra Milo and many others, everything is bounded by lyrical moments, with the warm voice of the director Giuliano Montaldo.

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My Country (Meu País)

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:10:44 +0000

Marco, a Brazilian who left his country to live in Italy many years ago, is a successful businessman, married to Julia. One day, he receives an unexpected phone call from Julia’s brother Ayrton, who informs him that their father died. Marco is forced to return to Brazil and to face the life he left when he moved to Rome. What seemed to be a short trip, continues after the discovery of the Manuela’s existence, his half-sister, born by an extra-marital affair of their father, and who lives in a psychiatric clinic. Manuela, like Marco, is a victim of their father’s bad decisions. Marco soon identifies himself with his sister. This change in Marco’s life upsets his whole way of life, causing profound change, bringing him to review his relationship with their brothers, and making him find a family that had been lost.

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Pizzangrillo

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:10:32 +0000

Tired of life, Ettore, 65-years-old, tries everyday to find the courage to drive himself and his three wheeler down a country ditch. When Luca, his 10-year-old grandson, finds out about his grandfather’s intentions, he decides to furtively follow him.

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Milongueros

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:00:10 +0000

Each night, in the most historical and important milongas of Buenos Aires, the most famous Milongueros tells and explains, not only how Tango is a wonderful and sensual dance, but how it’s a way of life.

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La Voce del Corpo

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:30:00 +0000

The Voice of the Body is a mystical trip trough magic of sicilian’s gesture.
The peculiarity of a people unique in to the world to comunicate with his body’s movements. Realized with the contribution of Regione Sicilia and Sicilia Film Commission there are also famous personalities from the world of culture and entertainement sicilian: Pippo Baudo, Emma Dante, Lucia Sardo, Salvo La Rosa.

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Io Sono Qui – sette giorni di appunti dalla vita di Mario Melazzini (medico – malato – uomo)

riff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:00:06 +0000

Doctor Mario Melazzini got ALS, an incurable disease which slowly paralyzes your entire body until death. He thinks the best solution is to commite suicide, but the day before he asks himself: is this what I want? Confused he retreats to the Alps, where something happens between his soul and the beauty of the mountains. He rethink his whole life and does something impossible, that is normal: he lives. The story of 7 days and 7 nights of his life as a doctor, who, thanks to the pain, rediscovered being a man: work, love, friendship. «Because there is only one incurable thing: my will to live».

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