Italy
Movie Review: Parthenope
3.5 stars out of 5 In the past handful of years, I’ve become lightly addicted to vintage, melancholy summer-by-the-shore movies, with extra points if they’re European. They’re generally slow-paced, in beautiful settings, sexy, with complicated relationships, and often contain a coming-of-age element. Parthenope is a modern Italian film that checks all the boxes yet still […]
Movie Review: Black Souls
4 stars out of 5 OK, let’s take out our mafia-movie checklist: Italians, multi-generation family, rival family, guns, drugs, glasses-wearing brother who’s “good at business,” brother who doesn’t want to be involved, hot-headed young guy, black Members Only-style jackets over black shirts, small clumps of furtive men standing around in aforementioned jackets. Black Souls, released […]
Movie Review: The Salt of Life
4 stars out of 5 Is this me in 20 years? (The Salt of Wound?) Sixty-three-year-old writer/director Gianni Di Gregorio plays 63-year-old Gianni, a prematurely-retired admirer of beautiful younger women who is a bit too shy to pull the proverbial trigger. The result is a light, charming film that either you will totally love, like […]
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