Fandango (Italy): 3

The Italian film, The Family Friend (2006), was directed by Paolo Sorrentino and was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Geremia, an elderly tailor and money lender, lives alone with his ill-tempered mother in a rundown house. Known for his selfish and frugal ways, Geremia develops a peculiar obsession with money and uses it to meddle in others’ affairs under the guise of being their ‘family friend’. One day, he is approached by a man seeking a loan for his daughter Rosalba’s wedding. Instantly smitten with the charming young woman, Geremia enters into an unconventional relationship ...

The anthology film, Eros (2004), showcase three distinct segments: The Hand, directed by Wong Kar-wai in Mandarin, Equilibrium by Steven Soderbergh in English, and The Dangerous Thread of Things by Michelangelo Antonioni in Italian. All three segments explore the themes of love and sex. The Hand (Wong Kar-Wai). During his visit to Miss Hua, a prestigious call girl from the 1960s, timid ...

The Italian psychological thriller film, The Consequences of Love (2004), was written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Its main character, Titta Di Girolamo, has been living in an upscale hotel in Lugano, Switzerland for the past eight years. Every day, he puts on his suit and roams around, intentionally avoiding any interactions with people. In the morning, he solves chess puzzles from the newspaper and in the evening he plays Grabber with a bankrupt aristocratic couple who are also staying at the hotel. Occasionally, he calls his family back in Italy but his wife always seems uninterested in talking to him and his ...