Waif Davide wanders the streets, having run away from home and his homophobic father. Falling in with a group of pimps and prostitutes, Davide quickly learns the reality of the streets, as well as how to survive. Shoplifting with his confrères, watching the performance of a drag diva, having his first sexual encounter, and seeking the protection of a local letch all feature as predictable milestones within this poorly constructed feel-bad film on its journey to the gutter.
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Reviews from current film festivals playing in Australia and around the world. Regular festivals include the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, Lavazza Italian Film Festival, Stonger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, and many others.
Those Happy Years; Anni felici (2013)
Guido is a young, talented sculptor who is dissatisfied with his traditionalist work and his teaching – attempting to branch out in to the avant-garde, but with little success. After a bruising encounter with the critics at an exhibition, he selfishly demands time and space from his loving family and his fiery wife. Sick of their unhealthy relationship, his wife Serena takes their two young boys on a feminist retreat in the south of France – occasioning a sunlit transformation of their lives, and their return to their father.
Read MoreStay Away From Me; Stai lontana di me (2014)
Jacopo is one of Italy’s most successful marriage counsellors, and a curse for the women who date him. No matter how careful they are, or what Jacopo tries, each woman he gets serious with ends up seriously in a gruesome and hilarious fashion. Swearing off women, he finds satisfaction in his work – that is, until Sara arrives in his life. Falling madly in love, Jacopo does his best to ignore the mounting signs that the curse is back and worse than ever – as Sara falls into a series of more dangerous, hilarious slapstick situations. Will their love last?
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