Italian Cinema Today

Matteo Troncone at the Mill Valley Film Festival Matteo Troncone's heartfelt documentary Arrangiarsi is the most refreshing contemporary film about the south to be shown in America in a very long time. Why? Because it's a film about the people of the south, the spirit of the south and the pride of the south. After one criminality film after another about the  stereotypical   southern poverty and people being abused, bullied and silenced by gangsters, finally there is a movie in which the element of organized crime takes just one segment and the people are positive in confronting it. The characters in  Arrangiarsi  are real. They are not actors reading a script. This is a rare and extraordinary opportunity to hear about the south from southerners born and raised there- southerners who did not flee. Instead, they stayed to withstand all the obstacles and challenges out of the love and loyalty they feel for their land. That is why the story is so fa...

A new film is making its rounds through America and the world. " AEffetto Domino" ( Domino Effect)  is the heartfelt story of an ambitious young man building his future and pursuing his dreams of teaching children in Africa when he is suddenly stopped in his tracks by a terminal illness. The film speaks to the way in which a terminal diagnosis not only affects a patient but also those closest to him.  The cast includes  Fabio Massa, who also directed the film, Cristina Donadio, Pietro De Silva, Ivan Bacchi, Salvatore Cantalupo and Martina Liberti. Massa, who portrays Lorenzo, was born in 1984 in  Castellammare di Stabia, a commune situated on the beautiful Bay of Naples. He began acting in 2002 with his first role in  Aurelio Grimaldi's " Rosa Funzeca ," a Neapolitan remake of Pier Paolo Pasolini's " Mamma Roma ." He said the role changed his life and he has been acting non-stop ever since.  Along the ...