Search: Starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Amanda (2022)

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The story may be presented in a quirky way, with a highly distinctive visual style, but it’s well observed and relatable.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

As far as 24-year-old Amanda can remember, she has never had friends. It’s the thing she desires most. When she finds out that as infants she and Rebecca had spent a lot of time together, Amanda settles on her new mission: convincing her that they are still best friends.
Facing Window (2003)

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The film answers every why, fitting the pieces of the puzzle together with infinite subtlety.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5

Intricate puzzle involving memory, forbidden love and voyeuristic infatuation.
Flying Lessons (2007)

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Flying Lessons offers some refreshing perspectives on a subject that's been done to death.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5

Two Italian boys travel to India to find themselves, but get more than they bargained for.
I Am Alive (2008)

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The film is, if nothing else, an intriguing snapshot of modern industrial Italy, a world away from the travel guide clichés of Rome or Tuscany.

Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off ‘nightwatchman’ job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre – and complex – than he expected.
Love In The Time Of Cholera (2007)

Review preview for Love In The Time Of Cholera

Its reach doesn’t quite meet its stretch, but there are very good reasons why you should watch it anyway.

Chris · 3.5 out of 5

The story of a man whose life and relationships are dominated throughout his life by his love for the one who got away.
Nightbus (2006)

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Falls short because it's not quite good enough to surmount the language barrier.

Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5

A night bus driver with heavy debts meets a young woman on the run from spies, with secrets of her own.
Naples In Veils (2017)

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Seductive direction embarks on an ill-advised tryst with silly plotting in Ferzan Oztepek's Naples-set psycho-thriller

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5

A woman whose lover is killed, begins to glimpse a man who looks like his doppelganger.
The Ties (2020)

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There is a miraculous playfulness to all this destructive behaviour. When one riddle is solved, another one appears.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5

Naples, early 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s marriage finds itself on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
Vincere (2009)

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Filippo Timi is excellent as the young, supremely egotistical Mussolini.

Val Kermode · 3.5 out of 5

The story of Musslolini's secret love child.