NEW ITALIAN CINEMA in San Francisco, Nov. 22-24-Dec. 2, 2019 (Forum thread)

[Chris Knipp]

VOLARE/TUTTO IL MIO FOLLE AMORE (Gabriele Salvatores 2019)

From the director of I'M NOT AFRAID, a road/buddy picture about the surprise bonding of a wild but sweet 16-year-old autistic boy and his disreputable absentee dad, a singer who who works in the Balkans. A pleasing fantasy.

Cinema Italian Style 2019, Vogue Theater, San Francisco Saturday, November 23, 6:00 pm

[Chris Knipp]

THE VICE OF HOPE/ IL VIZIO DELLA SPERANZA (Edoardo De Angelis 2018)

A woman involved in trafficking surrogate mothers, now pregnant herself, decides to run away.

Cinema Italian Style 2019, Vogue Theater, San Francisco Sunday, November 24, 5:00 pm

[Chris Knipp]

ORDINARY HAPPINESS/MOMENTI DI TRASCURABILE FELICITA (Daniele Luchetti 2019)

A dead man gets a short reprieve from heaven, and in the film's run time revisits and appreciates his life as a Palermo architect with a wife and two children.

Cinema Italian Style 2019, Vogue Theater, San Francisco Sunday, November 24, 2019 7:30 pm (Closing Night Film)