Carolina Crescentini Movies
- 2009
This warm, earthy and witty comedy from Italian director Massimo Venier observes the events that befall Matteo (Alessandro Tiberi), a 30-year-old college graduate with a mathematics degree. Equipped with a position in the marketing department of a telecommunications firm, he suddenly learns that the outfit is getting ready to cut back on personnel. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, (more)
- 2009
In Italy circa 1966, four female friends meet regularly over a game of canasta, to discuss their hopes, fears and concerns. Frustrations also emerge - many tied to the women's histories of extinguishing personal dreams in exchange for the false promises advertised as nuptial bliss. Thus begins helmer Enzo Monteleone's intimate ensembler Due Partite. The setting then shifts to Italy in 1996, when the women's daughters begin meeting for canasta, reflect on their own lives, and ponder a tragedy that befell one of the mothers. The cast features Margherita Buy, Claudia Pandolfi, Isabella Ferrari and several other mainstays of the Italian screen. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Margherita Buy, Isabella Ferrari, (more)
- 2008
A case of serendipity extends itself over many years in Italian director Silvio Muccino's bittersweet romantic drama Parlami d'amore (Let's Talk About Love). Aitana Sanchez-Gijon stars as Nicole, a quadragenarian housewife in a supremely dysfunctional marriage, and Silvio Muccino is Sasha, the twenty-year-old son of a drug-addicted mother and father; the pair meet when their cars crash one fateful evening and they accidentally injure a dog in the process. Taking the canine to a veterinary hospital, the two strangers sense a latent attraction to one another and swap phone numbers but (for unspoken reasons) refrain from calling each other for a lengthy period of time. In that interim, Sasha becomes unwisely attracted to a low-class girl with barrel-bottom standards; unacquainted with the young woman, Nicole offers Sasha advice that helps him win the girl's heart. In time, however, the new girlfriend drags Sasha into heavy gambling and unsavory company, and Sasha and Nicole subsequently begin to realize just how perfect the two of them are for one another. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Silvio Muccino, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, (more)
- 2007
An average guy named Diego becomes the target of a dangerous gangster known as the Chief after damaging the criminal's car and meeting the girl of his dreams in writer/director Marco Martani's gritty and stylish crime drama. When Diego damaged an average car on the street, he had no idea that the car belonged to a dangerous crime kingpin known only as the Chief. Determined to seek retribution for the damage done, the Chief sets out to track Diego down. But Diego is oblivious to the threat that's about to turn his world upside down, and upon meeting a beautiful girl named Asia he believes he's finally found his soul mate. When Asia becomes an unfortunate victim in the Chief's violent plot for revenge, Diego sets out to teach the Chief a lesson in humility. But Diego has underestimated the power and influence of his ruthless rival, a miscalculation that could cost him his life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carolina Crescentini, Giorgio Faletti, (more)
