Alessandra Acciai
Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating.
In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.
Nella Firenze 'magnifica' di Lorenzo De' Medici, cinque amici praticano con disinvoltura l'ozio e la bischerata. Irresponsabili e impenitenti, si ritrovano periodicamente per esorcizzare un domani di cui non v'è certezza, perché la peste è alle porte e il Savonarola è in città a predicare l'Apocalisse e a infliggere castighi. Duccio, consigliere svogliato, Cecco, oste sfaticato, Jacopo medico col vizietto, Manfredo, nullafacente con esagerata prole, e Filippo, nobile signore becco e infedele, dopo aver turbato le sorelle del convento con un nano ‘infante' e superdotato e aver tirato scemo il legnaiolo Alderighi, sottraendogli la focosa consorte e scambiandogli la vita, decidono per troppa noia di prendersi gioco di uno di loro, condannandolo loro malgrado ‘a capitolare'.
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
South of France: Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it.
Police commissioner Romeo is obsessively convinced that Velasco, a well known and respected Engineer, is a dangerous serial killer.
Alex and Max are two "bachelors" who share the same house: Alex, advertising copywriter, is boxing, is an impenitent dongiovanni and does not hesitate to betray his colleague and girlfriend Paola; Max, saxophonist, neglects his ulcer and is attracted, yes, but also scared, by women. The meeting with the chorister Anna at a recording session gives birth to a relationship that she would like to realize in a cohabitation that frightens the other. Meanwhile, Alex, between an adventure and the other, waits for the call of the only woman for whom he spits, Eleonora, who is undecided whether to leave for him the man to whom he is bound, exasperates him in a frustrating way. The father of Alex then, Dante, who has a relationship with a young woman, called Chicca, asks in vain to his son to act as a peacemaker with her, who has left him. Anna.
Diana begins to teach at a prestigious school, after suffering a trauma years earlier. Soon, however, happen little disturbing facts and discovers that the teacher who had preceded died in an accident rather strange, they seem to have a secret in common, the same director of the school holds an ambiguous attitude. Diana has the comfort of a police commissioner, but he has doubts about what she sees and the facts that happen. And when Anna, a pupil disappears and Diana is chosen by the students as their chaperone on a school trip ... Over all hovers the shadow of a mysterious game which all deny knowing anything.
Mark Ravenna, a famous Italian horror film director, sets out to script his latest film entitled 'Suspiria : De Profundis'. His film is based on Dario ArgentoÆs 'Suspiria' and 'Inferno' and deals with the story of Levana, Queen of all Witches. Levana is the eldest of the three mistresses of darkness, mother of madness, most powerful of all evil. Ravenna is warned not to make his film in fear of actually summoning Levana to the present day. He does not heed these warnings and casts his wife Anne to play the lead role of Levana. Anne reads the script and is then haunted and terrorized by the evil witch who tells her she will suffer terrible tortures if she continues, and that everyone involved with the production will suffer dire consequences.
Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected trouble with which he will have to face ..
