Francesco Grandjacquet
2021
The Assassin
Elio Petri
Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
The Assassin
Roma, città libera (La notte porta consiglio)
Marcello Pagliero
Valentina Cortese, Andrea Checchi
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
Rome: Free City
Desiderio
Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
Massimo Girotti, Carlo Ninchi
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
Desire
Una storia milanese
Eriprando Visconti
Enrique Thibaut, Danièle Gaubert
Luchino Visconti's nephew's debut, also awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Detailing the title and translating: 'A (n upper middle-class love) story set in the italian town if Milan (at the beginning of the '60s)'
Una storia milanese
