Umberto Domenico Ferrari (Carlo Battisti), an elderly man in Rome, is struggling to maintain a decent standard of living on his dwindling pension. He’s behind on his rent, and his landlady is threatening eviction if he doesn’t pay what he owes at the end of the month. Unable to get the money in time and feeling ill,…
Well, February and awards season sure went out with a bang (who hasn’t seen that Oscar snafu by now… I’m still not over the craziness!). Now that we’re in March, I can shift my focus back onto more TCM and FilmStruck screenings, as I spent much of the past month catching up on Oscar-nominated movies. I…
In the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied France, Julien Quentin (Gaspard Manesse) returns to his Catholic boarding school following the holiday vacation. Upon his arrival, he meets the school’s newest student, Jean Bonnet (Raphaël Fejtö), who is treated as an outsider by his classmates due to his reserved nature. Though there’s initially some friction between the…
We’re officially a month into 2017, and it’s already been quite a year… but as I do on my blog, we’ll just focus on the movies I watched, and I kicked off the first month of the year with a great selection of movies. For starters, I had the immense pleasure of seeing Singin’ in the…
After her longtime lover leaves her without explanation, Pepa (Carmen Maura) resolves to kill herself with a batch of gazpacho laced with sleeping pills. Before she can go through with her plan, she’s interrupted by a chaotic series of events; from her friend Candela (María Barranco) trying to evade police because of her ex-boyfriend’s criminal activities, and…