2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Gloria! Movie Review
Teresa (Galatéa Bellugi) is a young servant girl at a musical school for orphans. She is mute but seems to love music, she also appears to be suffering from some sort of trauma. When she discovers a brand new pianoforte in a storeroom that was gifted to the school, she sits down and begins to tickle the ivories.
Teresa has real musical skills but they come out in a most peculiar way (for the times). When four other students hear her playing in the middle of the night they join forces to ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Trust Movie Review
The basic story revolves around the life of a teacher named Pietro, played by Elio Germano. He appears to be a great teacher with a unique teaching method and is loved by all his students. That is the initial impression you are given, yet the addition of more information will tilt your perception of both his character and morality.
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This information comes via a large number of scenes that suggest much but confirm little. This technique at first is somewhat off-pu...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Comandante Movie Review
Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino - World War Z and Angels & Demons) was a real-life World War II veteran, who even though he was saddled with a severe back injury continued to serve in the Italian army. He was given command of the submarine Comandante Cappellini and asked to join the Battle of the Atlantic.
That battle, which was the longest continuous military campaign of the War was a horrendous campaign and led to an unimaginable number of casualties both civilian and ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival has announced its full program!
Opening the festival is GLORIA! the directorial debut of dynamic Italian singer, songwriter and actor Margherita Vicario, who also co-wrote the film which depicts the ebullient, music-filled story of a maid at a Venetian refuge whose hidden talent helps inspire an uprising.
Margherita will be visiting Australia as a special guest of the festival to introduce the film at Opening Night Gala events in Sydney and Melbourne. Joining her will be festival Ambassador Silvia Colloca, multi-tale...
The full programme for the 2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival has been released!
Opening the festival is GLORIA! the directorial debut of dynamic Italian singer, songwriter and actor Margherita Vicario, who also co-wrote the film which depicts the ebullient, music-filled story of a maid at a Venetian refuge whose hidden talent helps inspire an uprising.
Margherita will be visiting Australia as a special guest of the festival to introduce the film at Opening Night Gala events in Sydney and Melbourne. Joining her will be festival Ambassador Silvia Colloca, multi-tale...
