Tosca d'Aquino Movies
- 1999
Italian playwright turned director Vincenzo Salemme's sophomore effort is a bizarre romance between a bereaved widower and a rakish Mafioso libertine, both of whom are supposedly heterosexual. Mobster scion Bruno (Salemme) runs into a widowed policeman whose dead wife's eyes were donated to him thanks to a transplant. They experience a strange attraction that neither party can explain, thanks to Italy's organ donor anonymity laws. Soon, to the shock and disgust of his gangster family and peevish bride-to-be, Bruno begins acting in ways unbecoming a future godfather. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vincenzo Salemme, Mandala Tayde, (more)
- 1997
Saying that she needs to "discover herself," Irene has just left her boyfriend, Andrea. Because she was the wealthy one with an apartment, he is now in need of a place to stay. In this comedy, when he goes to see his buddies for sympathy, he finds that they are in even worse straits. Sandro's wife has finally kicked him out after his umpteenth affair with a married woman, and Alberto has been trying (and failing) to conceive a baby with his wife. When Christian, a young soccer star, offers to put up the beleaguered Sandro and Andrea in his expensive bachelor digs, it looks like a heaven-sent opportunity for non-stop good times. However, Christian has had a surfeit of casual sex, and he longs to find a nice young girl to settle down with. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1996
In this gentle Italian comedy, a troupe of flamenco dancers has been stranded in a town in rural Tuscany. When a stolid wine-growing family agrees to give them accommodations, the family members' lives of dull endurance are transformed as they are affected the romance, excitement and sensuality of their guests. The presence of the dancers causes quite a stir among the villagers as well. Levante (Leonardo Pieraccioni) lives with his father and sister in the family vineyard, and is enamored by the exotic charms of flamenco-dancer Caterina (Lorena Forteza). She is interested in him as well. Levante's family, and Caterina's dance troupe join forces in opposing their union, but all turns out well in the end. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac (Vincent Perez), who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina (Ornella Muti). He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella (Emmanuelle Béart). When the company plays before a group of noblemen, the three women make yet more conquests, a few of them unwelcome, and a series of competitions and duels for the hearts of the lovely ladies follows, before everyone settles down with the "right" person. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti, (more)
