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The Family Friend
''The Family Friend'' ( it, L'amico di famiglia) is a 2006 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Cast * Giacomo Rizzo - Geremia De Geremei * Laura Chiatti - Rosalba De Luca * Gigi Angelillo - Saverio * Marco Giallini - Attanasio * Barbara Valmorin - Nonna al bingo * Luisa De Santis - Silvia * Clara Bindi - Madre di Geremia * Roberta Fiorentini - Moglie di Saverio * Elia Schilton - Teasuro * Lorenzo Gioielli - Montanaro * Emilio De Marchi - Chef * Giorgio Colangeli - Massa * Fabio Grossi - Cognato di Saverio * Lucia Ragni - Cassiera * Fabrizio B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Bafta Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento. Sorrentino's direction and screenplays, including ''Il divo'', ''The Consequences of Love'', ''The Family Friend'', '' This Must Be the Place'' and the 2016 TV series ''The Young Pope'', have received three Cannes Lions, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. He works with authors and producers including Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano, Toni Servillo and Luca Bigazzi. Actors in his films have included Sabrina Ferilli, Fanny Ardant, Isabella Ferrari, Elena Sofia Ricci, Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jude Law, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Nanni Moretti, Filippo Scotti, Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese and Frank Langella. He has also wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio De Marchi (actor)
Emilio De Marchi (born 12 April 1959) is an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films in Italy and Germany since 1985. Selected filmography References External links * 1959 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films With Screenplays By Paolo Sorrentino
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Italian Drama Films
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Films Directed By Paolo Sorrentino
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Italian-language Films
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2006 Drama Films
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2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born 4 January 1957) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and screenwriter. Biography Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his sporting career because of an injury to his left knee and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage acting in ''Timon of Athens'' by William Shakespeare and also pursued his artistic career in cinema. Continuing his studies in medicine, he then moved to Rome. With Dario de Luca and in association with Studio Universal he founded the Tipota Movie Company. With the band Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel he has staged the show ''La guerra vista dalla luna''. He has also filmed the short film ''Típota''(1999) and has completed a tour performing his own songs. The soundtrack of ''Eternity and a Day ''(Italy/France/Greece, 1998) by Theo Angelopoulos contains the track "The Poet", with Bentivoglio's voice. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Colangeli
Giorgio Colangeli (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian stage, television and film actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Colangeli graduated in nuclear physics, then he started a stage career. After several minor roles, Colangeli's breakout role came in 2006 with the tormented Luigi Sparti in Alessandro Angelini's ''Salty Air''; for his performance he won a David di Donatello for best supporting actor and the Best Actor Award at the first Rome Film Festival. In 2012, for his performance in ''La decima onda'', he won a Nastro d'Argento for best actor in a short film. Selected filmography * '' The Dinner'' (1998) * ''Past Perfect'' (2003) * ''City Limits'' (2004) * ''Salty Air'' (2006) * ''The Family Friend'' (2006) * ''Cardiofitness'' (2007) * '' Miss F'' (2007) * '' St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor'' (2007) * ''Il Divo'' (2008) * '' Si può fare'' (2008) * ''Galantuomini'' (2008) * ''Parlami d'amore'' (2008) * ''Raise Your Head'' (2009) * ''Palestrina - Prince of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Bindi
Clara Bindi (born 1 November 1927) is an Italian actress. Biography Born in Naples, Bindi joined the Eduardo De Filippo theater company in the 1947-48 season and in 1948 made her film debut as Giulietta Del Bello in '' La macchina ammazzacattivi'', directed by Roberto Rossellini.Filmed in 1948 but not released until 1952 She was a member of the De Filippo company for several years, even appearing in numerous television adaptations of his plays. She was in over fifty films between 1948 and 2013 and is best known for her work in the films, '' La Maschera del Demonio'' (1960), '' L'amico di famiglia'' (2006), and '' Signorina Effe'' (2007). Starting from the 1990s, she specialized in roles of mother and grandmother. Outside her film and television appearances, Bindi was essentially a revue and dialect theater actress. She was also active as a voice actress and a dubber. Described as full of temperament and highly communicative, she was married to actor Aldo Bufi Landi Aldo Buf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Procacci
Domenico Procacci (born 8 February 1960) is an Italian film producer. Life and career Born in Bari, Procacci debuted as a producer in the late 1980s, when he co-founded with Renzo Rossellini and others the production company Vertigo. In 1990 he founded the company Fandango, which debuted with a box office hit, Sergio Rubini's ''La stazione''. He soon specialized in producing small-budget art films directed by young directors. In 1992, he started a long collaboration with Rolf de Heer, producing and even distributing his films in Italy, and in 2002 he co-founded with de Heer, Richard Lowenstein, Sue Murray and Bryce Menzies the production company Fandango Australia. Procacci won four David di Donatello Awards for best producer, and four Silver Ribbons in the same category. In 2014, Procacci had a son with Kasia Smutniak, whom he married in September 2019. Selected filmography * 1990 - '' The Station'' * 1992 - ''Flight of the Innocent'' * 1993 - ''Bad Boy Bubby '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
