Stefania Orsola Garello Movies
- 2003
Italian filmmaker Salvatore Piscicelli writes and directs the psychological drama Alla Fine Della Notte (At the End of the Night). Depressed, middle-aged actor/director Bruno Spada (Ennio Fantastichini) goes on a journey in search of happiness. At his home in Rome, his own wronged wife Fiamma (Stefania Orsola Garello) rightfully wants to leave him due to his constant infidelity. He first goes to Tuscany in order to visit his ex-girlfriend Viola (Elena Sofia Ricci), but she has her own relationship problems with a Filippino man (Ricky Tognazzi) to deal with. In Naples, he reunites with his aunt (Ida Di Benedetto) and recollects his childhood memories. At the End of the Night was screened at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ennio Fantastichini, Elena Sofia Ricci, (more)
- 2002
Italian director Marco S. Piccioni's Quello Che Cerchi (What Are You Looking For) takes a provate eye named Impero (Marcello Mazzarella) for a main character. He is burning out on life and his job when the wife of a married couple that used to be good friends with him hires Impero to spy on their son. The son has been having a difficult time ever sine his father successfully became a transsexual. While Impero and the son begin to develop a relationship, Impero begins to wonder if the young man might be his son. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marcelo Mazzarella, Stefania Orsola Garello, (more)
- 2000
- PG
Stefano Grossi directs this film with a bifurcated plot. The first section concerns a dignified Tunisian glassblower who leaves his family to go to Italy to look for work, only to have his paycheck swiped by a Polish pickpocket. He eventually finds solace in a stranger. In the second section, this same stranger, Ivana, has a nervous breakdown due in part to a prank phone caller. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Simona Caramelli, Stefania Orsola Garello, (more)
- 1999
Delving into the uncharted territory of hardcore melodrama and three-hanky pornography, director Davide Ferrario recounts this tale of the life and death of an Italian X-rated icon. Nina (Elisabetta Cavallotti) is a middle-class woman who finds herself drawn to the adult film industry because she really, really likes sex and because she enjoys having men ogle her. Yet in spite of her daily rounds of athletic heterosexual coupling, she becomes romantically attached to Cristiana (Stefania Orsola Garello), an editor of a hardcore magazine. During a checkup, Nina learns that she has cancer and tries to continue to work in spite of ongoing chemotherapy treatment. Yet when word of her malady gets around, she soon learns that she is no longer in demand. The weight of Nina's illness proves to be too much, and she dumps Cristiana in favor of fellow cancer victim Flavio (Flavio Insinna). Ferrario punctuates this work with sketches of the porn biz including bored set technicians and sleazy producers who are into S&M. This film was screened at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stefania Orsola Garello, Flavio Insinna, (more)
- 1998
After short films, videos, commercials, and work as an assistant director, Marco Turco made his directorial debut with this Italian drama set during the '80s in a community of former Italian terrorists in the Paris section of Belleville. After journalist Jacopo (Massimo Bellinzoni) attends the wedding of his exiled older brother Dario (Ennio Fantastichini), he stays on, taping video interviews with Dario's past associates. This is material Jacopo intends to use in an article he's writing, but group members become suspicious. The hostility heightens after Jacopo grows close to Eugenia (Isabella Ferrari), who once teamed with Dario for a hit on an Italian industrialist. Meanwhile, Dario is overcome by the realization that his young daughter is beginning to learn the truth about his past. The screenplay is based on Turco's 1996 documentary about political refugees in Paris. Shot with a 16mm blow-up to 35mm, the music track combines the percussive jazz of Riccardo Fassi with moody Steve Lacy sax solos. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ennio Fantastichini, Isabella Ferrari, (more)
- 1994
The lives of two Eastern European hookers, and two losers adrift in a pitiless city are paralleled in this Italian drama. The stories are set in Turin, which is presented as a lonely, grim, and violent city. Happiness is hard to find in this harsh environment as 30-year old Alberto, a door-to-door salesman, and his best friend Luigi, a social worker, well know. Both of them are bored with their jobs, lonely and depressed. Together they spend their nights in bars and discos searching for women. Cinzia, from Bulgaria, and Christina, a Russian, are call girls. They hate their job and are desperate to escape. Alberto and Luigi have seen them, and secretly long for the women. Toward the movie's end the four come together for an upbeat finale. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stefania Orsola Garello, France Demoulin, (more)
- 1989
- NR
The Story of Boys and Girls is about a rural Italian girl who invites the family of her rich Bolognese fiance over for a 20-course banquet at her home. Over the course of the meal, both families talk about many different topics, revealing a number of secrets along the way. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Felice Andreasi, (more)
