Time for Loving

In the mid-1960s, on the Tuscan beaches of Forte dei Marmi, the lives of several teenagers intersect, who have come there to spend their holidays with their families. Among the many members of the youthful group, the Milanese brothers Luca and Felicino Carraro stand out, now regulars at the place; the Neapolitans Paolo and Marina, who are spending their holidays in Versilia for the first time; and the Genoese Gianni, the boyfriend of the beautiful Selvaggia. Against the backdrop of the Tuscan sea and to the rhythm of the most beautiful songs of the ’60s, the love dramas and adventures of this group of youths unfold. Between flirts, romantic disappointments, games on the shore, and bonfires on the beach, the summer comes to an end. Only many years later will the protagonists of that unforgettable vacation on the coasts of Versilia meet again, to discover what destiny has in store for each of them.

Swept Away

Raffaella, the wife of a wealthy Milanese industrialist, enjoys her holidays aboard a luxurious yacht the couple has rented. During her stay, she continuously flaunts her social status to Gennarino Carunchio, the helmsman. One day, the woman wakes up late and demands that the man take her to the mainland with a small boat to meet some friends, but the two end up shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they are overwhelmed by passion.

Three Colours: Blue

First movie of the Three Colors trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski. According to Kieślowki, the subject of the film is liberty, in particular emotional liberty. When her husband and daughter die in a car accident, Julie is heartbroken. To free herself from her past and start a new life Julie sells the house, destroys memories and burns the unfinished symphony of the deceased husband. Julie would like a life without more property or ties, but fate brings her back to life and love.

Three Colours: White

The second film from Krysztof Kieslowski’s acclaimed Color Trilogy. Karol, a Polish hairdresser who lives in Paris, is forced by his French wife to accept divorce because of his impotence. He returned clandestinely to Poland with the help of an occasionally known compatriot, gradually creeped into the circle of speculators and got rich. To get his wife back, whom he is always in love with, he sets up a complicated plan.

Three Colours: Red

Last chapter of the Color Trilogy: Valentine, model and twenty-three year old student, lives alone in Geneva. Her boyfriend, a jealous and nagging guy, sometimes calls her from London, where he works. One evening the girl accidentally runs over a dog, which belongs to a retired magistrate to whom he had escaped. At 65, he is a loner, grumpy and of rare words, whose only activity consists in spying on the inhabitants of the neighboring houses and intercepting phone calls, even the most intimate. But regardless of the dog accident, the judge has an interest in Valentine. A strange relationship is then established between the two, made of shyness and discretion.

Borsalino

Marseille, 1930s. Two young thugs, Rock and François, start working together to try to take a slice of the city’s underworld market. However Marseille is dominated by the two gangsters Poli and Marello, the first one controls the meat market, while the second one the gambling dens and nightclubs. After gaining the control of the fish market, Rock and François decide to climb the underworld empire. On the famous notes by Claude Bolling, the “nice scoundrels” of French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, perform together in this cult film directed by Jacques Deray.

La Haine

Twenty-four hours in the life of Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), three friends from the Parisian banlieue in the aftermath of clashes between law enforcement and civilians, following which a neighborhood boy, Abdel, ends up critically injured due to the violent abuses of the police. The three, filled with anger and holding a gun, contemplate how to seek justice. Three protagonists different from each other, with opposite characters, seemingly irreconcilable. Three different ways of facing life by responding to the challenges of a complex, suffocating social context, full of tension, in free fall.

La Haine has been restored in 4K from the original negatives with the supervision of cinematographer Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

An FBI agent mysteriously disappears while investigating the death of a teenager, Teresa Banks, in the vicinity of the town of Twin Peaks. The murder appears to be connected to that of Laura Palmer, another local girl involved in a series of sordid affairs involving sex and drugs. The brilliant investigator Dale Cooper tries to track down the killer through a series of clues that appear to him in his dreams.

Eraserhead

A film cult by the visionary master David Lynch. Henry is a printer who, one evening, receives the news from his girlfriend Mary who, without his knowledge, gave birth to a baby with alien features. The management of the baby, in Henry’s apartment, will cause traumas and nightmares, until Mary decides to leave the newborn with the partner who, increasingly lost, tries to escape the present hell.

David Lynch said about the film: “Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is”.

The Scent of the Night

Despite being a policeman, Remo Guerra is also the head of a group of robbers of the Roman suburbs specializing in the assault of rich people. Totally absorbed by his illegal dimension, Remo manages to develop an effective criminal technique: the gang hooks up the victims on the street, follows them in the car and enters the house. But despite the continuous successes, Remo faces a conscience crisis: should he, the robber of the rich, reveal the contradictions of society?

Based on the novel by the journalist Dido Sacchettoni “The Nights of Clockwork Orange” published in 1986, in turn inspired by facts of the news.

The second unforgettable film by Claudio Caligari, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, THE SCENT OF THE NIGHT marks the return of Claudio Caligari behind the camera after fifteen years since his debut with Amore Tossico.

Lost Highway

The saxophonist Fred Madison is haunted by a series of videotapes that resume his life from various points of view. Married to Renée, he attends a party with her where he is approached by a mysterious man who makes fun of him and terrifies him, the next day, Renée is found dead. Fred is arrested for murder and in prison he suffers from terrible migraines. One morning, in his cell, another man, Pete, wakes up in his place, a young mechanic who is immediately released. Fred is so bitter and depressed that even this imaginary life takes a disturbing turn, turning into a new nightmare; he will enter a kingdom of madness and mystery.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The dramatic period of the Racial Laws and anti-Semitic persecution seen from the point of view of a Jewish family of the upper middle class of Ferrara. The Finzi Contini, who try to resist the progressive social isolation thanks to their own means, decide to open the doors of their beautiful villa and its immense park to a small circle of friends, victims, like them, of the Racial Laws. Between the tennis courts and the meadows of the house, love and youth dramas are consumed, in a time almost suspended, prelude to the atrocities of History and a war that is now coming.