Sunday Bloody Sunday - Focus UK - Chiara Ferrante

Joe Schlesinger signed a cinematic masterpiece became a landmark for its time, Sunday Bloody Sunday,  1971 . The film tells the story of a complicated love triangle between three Londoners, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Murray Head, which shows not only the gay world with ease but above illustrates and tries to understand the complexity of human behavior. A daring film, perhaps too much so for the time.
Bob is a young designer who lives two bisexual love affairs simultaneously with a lawyer in London, Alex (played by Glenda Jackson) and a doctor jew, Daniel (played by a talented Peter Finch). The two lovers are aware of the existence of others, but prefer to endure the situation for fear of losing Bob. Alex and Daniel are forced to be what they are not really in their work and with their families, but they can really show themselves only in contact with Bob. For Alex, their relationship is a lifeline than its general failure in life, from childhood distress that characterized his early years of marriage gone wrong, but Bob Daniel is an escape from his strict Jewish education and a point of call to free her repressed nature. The situation, however, when Bob rushes suddenly announced his departure for the United States, providing for her two lovers, older than he is in search of existential and emotional stability, great suffering and an incredible emptiness.
In addition to a formidable cast in which stand the three protagonists, there are several minor roles filled by those who are now major players such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Peggy Ashcroft and Maurice Denham.
Of great importance in the film are the places where the events take place. The house of each of the protagonists and the environment in which they live tell us much about them: Alex lives in a flat, large, home to a professional young man without roots, but the home of Daniel is very elegant and perfectly mirrors the His sensitive soul and his generosity in helping others, and finally the home of Bob perfectly reflects his profession and his social class, being a small apartment which is also the artist's studio.

DECAMERON ITALIAN -Italy Happy birthday! - Chiara Ferrante

The National Film Archive in collaboration with the Rome Film Festival has brought to the screen ten films of the Auditorium dedicated to our country. Five days to tell the identity view of Italian cinema: the ratio of the Italians with the church, family, history, their character and the fictional division between Po and southerners.
The retrospective devoted to 150 anniversary of the D ' Italy has opened Oct. 31 with two films that tell and reveal the character of the Italians: ITALIAN Italioti and this is the section that opens the retrospective contains two masterpieces of Italian cinema: The Monsters of Dino Risi and The Great War of Mario Monicelli. In the first film in 20 short sketches Dino Risi form a mosaic of Italy cynical and ironic that in the mid 60s out of the economic miracle and is faced with the industrialization and especially the change of the reference values. The film gives an overview of the vices of a country in rapid transformation, in which the Italian is a monster represented in its civil and social difficulties, which accentuate these problems there are sinister and deformed characters represented in the film as caricatures, interpreted a formidable pair of actors: Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Another masterpiece is The Great War with a fresco depicting choral, and dramatic irony of Italian life in the trenches during the First World War. Through a language of neo-realist and romantic at the same time Monicelli combines traditional Italian comedy scenes with remarkable attention to historical details.