The betrothed

The love story of a couple in which he had been a she.

A testimony of the force of love that binds two people, a present-day betrothed couple.
The narration proceeds as a thriller in which the two protagonists conceal a mystery: visible traces, scars on an arm, details that worm their way into the story until the enigma is revealed. He had previously been a she.
A contemporary metamorphosis made possible by their love.

 

Angelo Novi, movie stills photographer

A journey into the memoir of our cinema through the words and images of Angelo Novi.

The film is a journey into the memoir of our cinema, from the years after the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. The photographs Angelo Novi took on the sets of Pasolini, Rossellini, Leone and Bertolucci are commented by the original sound tracks of the films and by the same photographer who describes the precise moment he snapped them. We get to know one of the most important witnesses of Italian cinema through his tales that are full of anecdotes and emotion.

Matilda

Is Matilda a jinx? A black comedy with a surprise ending.

Is Matilda a jinx? After the mysterious accidental deaths of  three boyfriends, Matilda, who is eager to marry, runs a matrimonial ad in the papers, which is answered by dithering Torquato (Silvio Orlando), who cannot resist her charm. Ignoring the misfortunes of her previous boyfriends, he is headed towards a destiny that promises to be lethal. The film is a black comedy with a surprise ending.

A house on a knife – edge

In a c minor trio, a viola d’amore, a cello and a violin are capable of grasping the unforseeable from life and still play with its possibilities.

Giovanni (Luigi Pistilli) a womanizer enamoured of life, Teo (Riccardo Cucciola) an old school chum and meticulous collection of watches, and Maria (Marina Vlady) a childhood sweetheart, always ready to help her fellow compatriots in Italy, inherit an apartment in Rome. After an arduous beginning, this casual cohabitation brings new energies to the lives of all three.  The sudden death of one of them puts the surviving two in a quandary: should they cancel this experience and go back to the dreariness of their destinies, or rather continue on the path they have embarked upon towards a future together?