Bad Tales
Monday 28 November, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
MA15+
Italy, Switzerland, 2020
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian
Director: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo
Starring: Elio Germano, Tommaso Di Cola, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Gabriel Montesi
What's it about?
In a small family suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, everything seem normal, but it's an illusion - the place hides the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the desperation of the children. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival.
Reckless
Tuesday 29 November, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
MA15+
Italy, 2018
Genre: Comedy, Action
Language: Italian
Director: Marco Ponti
Starring: Lorenzo Richelmy, Matilda De Angelis, Eugenio Franceschini, Antonio Gerardi
What's it about?
When a young mechanic, deep in debt, has his bank loan rejected, a series of unfortunate events turns into an unplanned bank robbery. Along with his best friend, a former rally driver, and a miserable teen superstar as their hostage, they start on a crazy race across Italy.
Human Capital
Wednesday 30 November, 9:40pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
MA15+
Italy, 2014
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian
Director: Paolo Virzì
Starring: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
What's it about?
Human Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class life, in ways neither could have expected. Based on the novel by American author Stephen Amidon, who would co-write the script for 2017's The Leisure Seeker with writer-director Paolo Virzì.
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The Girl in the Fog
Thursday 1 December, 9:35pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
M
Italy, 2017
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Language: Italian
Director: Donato Carrisi
Starring: Toni Servillo, Jean Reno, Alessio Boni, Lorenzo Richelmy, Galatea Ranzi
What's it about?
In the hazy Italian mountain village of Avechot, inscrutable Detective Vogel (Servillo, from The Great Beauty) is investigating the sudden disappearance of a teenage girl. Two days before Christmas, fifteen-year-old Anna Lou disappeared, upended the tight-knit community. But the fog that has swallowed her hides a greater mystery. In Avechot nothing is what it seems and nobody tells the whole truth. An adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Donald Carrisi, who also directed the film.
Martin Eden
Friday 2 December, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
M
Italy, 2019
Genre: Romance, Drama
Language: Italian, French
Director: Pietro Marcello
Starring: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Elisabetta Valgoi
What's it about?
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden (Marinelli) seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class. Based on the novel of the same name by Jack London, and winner of the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.
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