Rehearsed Realities: Cecilia Mangini’s Documentary Fictions of Rural South Italy
In a post-war Italy ravaged by two decades of fascism, reckoning with the ruins of its urban landscape, young photographer…
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“Not my country, not my home, nobody in the whole world”: The Life and Cinema of Lorenza Mazzetti (1928 – 2020)
When she arrived at the British border off the ferry from France in 1951, Lorenza Mazzetti’s Italian passport was stamped…
Crisis-women: Prostitution and Capitalist Modernity in Lina Wertmüller’s ‘Love and Anarchy’
“That pig must die!” declares Salomè, with tears in her eyes. The pig? Mussolini. Salomè? An anarchist prostitute embroiled in…
Earth Signs: Reading the Post-Pastoral in Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘The Wonders’ (‘Le Meraviglie’)
There is a scene in Alice Rohrwacher’s 2014 film The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) in which the protagonist Gelsomina, the eldest daughter of a…
“A Habit of not Talking about the Past” in Eritrean Italy: Documenting a Diaspora
Asmarina (2015), by Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos, explores the multiplicity of Eritrean migratory experiences and tells the many stories…
Super-ego, super-charged: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’
While Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017) received general acclaim last year, one particular critique cut through the…
Cannes Review: Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ (‘Lazzaro Felice’)
The idea for Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) reportedly came to Alice Rohrwacher when remembering an article she had read…