Tag: Valentina Ornaghi
Catherine Dunne – In the Beginning
There are emotions, feelings and sensations you think belong only to you, details you think you are the only one to perceive: however, it’s...
Heinrich Böll – The lost honour of Katharina Blum
“Calumny is a little breeze”: that is what Dr. Bartolo sings in the opera “The Barber of Seville”, Gioacchino Rossini’s most famous work, well...
Silvio Donà – Living with a non-famous writer
I know what you are thinking: this article should have been written by my wife.
However, it is also true that when you have known...
A Dangerous Toy
A Dangerous Toy is a film that suffers from the climate of insecurity typical of 1970s’ Italy. The narrative apparatus built by Donati is...
Giorgio Olivari – Nenad
Grandma went to town yesterday and never came back. What happened? I don’t know.
Alma tells me not to worry. She says: “Don’t be scared,...
Road to Perdition
USA, 1930s. Michael O’Sullivan is a good family man and leads an apparently secluded and devoted life. While Michael goes to work, as every...
Dead Men Ride (1971)
Aldo Florio is not a director specialized in western movies, he doesn’t shoot memorable films, neither does he dramatize masterpieces (among his best works,...
Mary McCarthy – The Group
Sex and the City has not invented anything
McCarthy shows the reader, with courtesy and irony, the first steps into adulthood of eight girls who...
Giorgio Olivari – The Relic
The small town at the foot of the Alps was pervaded by a thrill. The anniversary of the battle that had made every inhabitant...
Lara Gregori – A flight without melody
They say she is crazy.
She had come in a May morning, when the dawn still had the sharp smell of night bombings and the...