Saturday, January 17, 2015

Arroz amargo 1949..nice and old

The film starts at the beginning of the season rice planted in northern Italy. Francesca (Doris Dowling) and Walter (Vittorio Gassman) are a young couple who have just thieves steal a valuable necklace in a hotel where she worked as a waitress. To escape the police, Walter trust necklace Francesca and both try to go unnoticed in a crowd of laborers (the mondine) to board a train to the rice fields of the Po valley . While waiting to board the train, the couple met Silvana (Silvana Mangano), a young and sensual mondina, Walter flirts with which to hide from the police, despite which is recognized and flees. Francesca and Silvana together make the trip to the rice fields.

Silvana, intrigued by Francesca, help you get a job as "clandestine" mondina (no contract). After initial resistance of contract workers, the "underground" are finally admitted to planting. Francesca is thus introduced in the grueling lifestyle of temporary rice.

Silvana soon discovers the necklace stolen by Francesca and it withdraws him in the bedroom. Then accused of strikebreaking , to out of the way.

Francesca danger of being lynched by their peers, but is saved by a sergeant about to be licensed after his service in the army, Marco Galli ( Raf Vallone ), which pacifies the two sides. Francesca gets grouped with other irregular partners and eventually convinces all laborers to perform a common protest with the aim that all mondine are legally employed.

Silvana Francesca apologizes and returns the necklace, confessing to have acted tired and asequeada of the hard life of a day laborer. Upon returning the booty assists Marco, who is in love with Silvana, while Francesca is far from it.

On arrival at the estate of Walter, who had been hiding waiting for things to calm down, wreak havoc during an evening party. Silvana returns to "borrow" the necklace to Francesca and dances with Walter between laborers and laborers. Also go to the party Marco, who upon seeing Silvana necklace mounted with anger, rips neck collar and fistfight with Walter.

Francesca Walter then reveals that the stolen necklace is just imitation and leaves, while, to woo Silvana, offers the same necklace as a gift, hiding her the truth. Dazzled by the prospect of life that offers Walter, Silvana becomes her lover. But Walter movement is not disinterested: is actually in league with three accomplices to steal the rice harvest and Silvana has seduced to have your help. So when will be crowned "Miss Mondina 1948", Silvana opens the floodgates of channels and flood the rice field. Thus, while all rtrabajadores strive to save the crops, Walter can get away with arrroz and harvested.

But Francesca guessed Walter plans and, thinking that the robbery rice would mean ruin for mondine and that's quite another to steal from the rich, warns Marco, thinking it's the only one who can help her. Marco and Francesca are faced with Walter and Silvana; the two men hurt each other and the outcome is in the hands of women, each armed with a gun. After mouth Francesca know that Walter has cheated and has used it for their own purposes, Silvana pointing the gun at him and shoot. But that will not be enough to redeem his own eyes the betrayal of his comrades, looking for an illusory individual salvation; Instead redemption that has managed to find Francesca class solidarity. Thus, Silvana, in shock, commits suicide and mondine pay homage, covering her body handfuls of rice; while, Francesca and Marco march together in search of a better future.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Folle d'elle 1998 nice movie


Returning from a story abroad, Mark, a young photographer, finds his girlfriend in the arms of her roommate. Abandoned by his editor who tells him stories without interest, he finds refuge with Victor and Alex, a couple of gay friends. For its part, Lisa, Alex's best friend is getting a divorce from a husband who deceives and suffers from loneliness. She would share her home with "someone like Alex." Exasperated by fads Marc Victor and Alex are going to pass it to Lisa Gay accepts it as roommate.

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