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10 April, 2024
Pachinko | The history of the forgotten
Pachinko talks about big historical events through the eyes of the ordinary persons who had to survive them. With her rich prose, Lee tells without judgment the stories of her characters.
19 May, 2022
Dickinson | The great American poet, revised
Dickinson is a greatly revised and stylized version of the real poet's youth and art. The result is a wacky and explosive half history drama, half teen comedy - with a 21st century soundtrack accompanying a 19th century setting.
28 October, 2021
The Serpent | Asia's most famous serial killer
To stop an apathetic master of disguise like Charles Sobhraj from committing atrocious crimes all over Asia, is a rather uneasy task.
30 September, 2021
The Crown | Royalty & the Grey Zone
The Crown shows what's behind the curtains of the Royal family of England. A story of humanity, happiness, pain, and love.
23 June, 2021
Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world
Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit tells the story of a boy whose best imaginary friend is Hitler and dreams of becoming the best Nazi in the world.
04 March, 2021
Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio
Romulus is an historical drama and a coming-of-age story, that witnesses the main characters' development in a world full of superstition.
17 February, 2021
Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film
If the plot of Throne of Blood sounds familiar, it’s because it translates Shakespeare’s Macbeth into film. Not just an adaptation, but a filiation that gains artistic independence thanks to all his betrayals, while staying true to the core of the tragedy.
02 December, 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today
Aaron Sorkin’s directorial adventure The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a dramatization of the infamous proceedings which took place in 1968.
09 September, 2020
Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.
Selma, while featuring King as protagonist, is noticeably not named after him. Rather it is named for the town in Alabama where, in 1965, he staged three voting rights marches in peaceful protest against the withholding of the vote from southern Black communities.
29 May, 2020
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”
25 January, 2023
Midnight's Children | An epic of Indian independence
Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.
17 October, 2022
By the Sea | Silence, memory, and the acceptance of loss
Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea explores themes such as migration, loss, and memory through the recollections of its two main characters.
01 March, 2022
A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime
Written by Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms is one of the most relevant war novels of the 20th century.
31 January, 2022
Peau d'homme | A peek inside a different world
Peau d'homme, the graphic novel by Hubert and Zanzim published in France in 2020, offers a reflection on sexuality, gender roles, and more.
08 November, 2023
Vikings | Violent Sehnsucht and Nordic allure
Aired from 2013 to 2021, Vikings is a historical drama set in ancient times in North Europe, permeated with longing for conquer.
05 April, 2023
Outlander | An overwhelming romance through the ages of Scotland
Set over two different centuries, Outlander tells the story of Jamie and Claire and their adventurous romance through the ages of Scotland.
03 March, 2022
The Rose of Versailles | Putting politics into a children's anime
Born from Riyoko Ikeda's need to express her political views, The Rose of Versailles tells the story of Lady Oscar and the French Revolution.
24 February, 2022
Downton Abbey | Upstairs and Downstairs Intrigues
Downton Abbey is a cult British historical drama about the intertwined lives of an English aristocratic family and their domestic servants.
25 February, 2021
Bridgerton | A Revolutionary Period Drama
Produced by Shonda Rhimes, Chris Van Dusen's Bridgerton is a groundbreaking period drama that aims to be a more inclusive and modern version of the genre.
10 December, 2020
Chernobyl | What history can teach
The characters' actions are moved by simple heroism and integrity, and they are combined in a way that forces us to see the contradiction behind the word we use to define Chernobyl as a disaster: it wasn’t a natural catastrophe, it was man-made - therefore, it could be avoided.
16 December, 2021
Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy
June 10th, 1981 is a date that marks an emotional wound on Italian recent history. In 2021, forty years later, Alfredino - An Italian Story tries to reproduce the events of those painful days.
15 June, 2021
Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world
Published in 1997, Marco Philopat's autobiography Costretti a sanguinare is a stream of consciousness in a punk world.
22 February, 2021
Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
Liborio’s life is a tough one, the life of an outcast. Several times he gets close to entering society, but then something always happens which pushes him back.
15 January, 2021
The Queen's Gambit | A western on the chessboard
The Queen's Gambit is a powerful coming-of-age story but also a western, in its way of showing every match on the screen as a remastered duel between cowboys.
16 July, 2020
Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero
It takes place thirty-four years after the original and has the merit of reconsidering the superhero mythology in a different framework: that of racial discrimination.
11 May, 2020
My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power
Published in 2011, My Brilliant Friend is enigmatic writer Elena Ferrante’s fifth book and the first of her internationally successful tetralogy Neapolitan Novels. Read and discussed everywhere - in noisy kitchens as well as crowded university classrooms - Ferrante’s books have been analyzed, devoured, and finally turned into a tv series produced by HBO, in 2018.
08 March, 2020
The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity
The Lighthouse is a film by Robert Eggers, inspired by one of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, starring William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
21 February, 2020
Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society
The complex and mysterious narrative of the show skirts the border between historical research and artistic reinterpretation of the Sixties.
18 February, 2020
Underworld | A dual conception of history
Don Delillo's Underworld sports all the fittings of the Great American Novel: the length, the epic dimension, the complexity of its themes, its entanglement with American history. Like Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Underworld constructs an almost anthropological representation of the fifty-year period between the Cold War and the Nineties.
22 September, 2020
A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma
A Private Affair (Una Questione Privata) is a short, dense, and incredibly well-written novel by Beppe Fenoglio. Published posthumously in 1963 the book succeeds in narrating the drama of the Italian Resistance in WWII, intertwining a private and small story with the collective history.
16 October, 2023
Middlemarch | Victorian sensitivities and modern readings
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was first published between 1871 and 1872 by Mary Anne Evans under the pen name of George Eliot.
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Pachinko | The history of the forgotten
Posted on 10 April 2024
The Museum of Innocence | A Declaration of Love to a City
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The Red and The Black | The Quest to be Napoleon
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Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory | An Allegory of the Deadly Sins
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Nana by Ai Yazawa | A mature shojo sensation
Posted on 30 November 2023
Maestro in Blue | Netflix’s First Greek Production
Posted on 24 November 2023
A Dangerous Toy | The Dark Ambitions of a Middle-Class Man
Posted on 18 November 2023
Vikings | Violent Sehnsucht and Nordic allure
Posted on 8 November 2023
Artistic revolutions | Cubist inspirations in One Piece
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Middlemarch | Victorian sensitivities and modern readings
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Tex | Wild West’s and Italy’s man of the people
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