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.
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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.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Serena Grandi...Teresa...1987
Romagna, eighties. Teresa, a beautiful, busty and strong-willed, is widowed. To exercise in its own activities trucker aboard a Scania 142, is forced to settle a debt of 80 million pounds, that her husband, before dying, had contracted with Nabucco, a wealthy local businessman. The latter, in love with her, the intimate that if by August of the following year will not be able to pay off the debt, will have to marry him. Teresa, who does not return this feeling, he started working very hard (with mixed success), personally carrying goods from Germany to Sicily, and trying to mislead the court of suitors that meets from time to time (among others: an unlikely German baron and a caricaturist boss of the Sicilian Mafia).
In this series of scrimmage finds time to fall in love with the young Gino, his second driver, Romagnolo true as she and difficult character to drive Iveco Turbostar. This is a comedy in which Dino Risi is expressed in a minor key, with an obvious (but not always successful) tribute to the Emilia-Romagna region and its inhabitants. The soundtrack includes songs by Lucio Dalla and Casadei.
Blood...2004 Drama
After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other. Chris, who has just divorced his wife Denise, is a recovering alcoholic. Although he has never served time, he has committed crimes in his past. Noelle, a drug addict, turns tricks to make ends meet. She has just completed a stint in prison. Upon Chris' arrival, Noelle proposes to Chris that they enter into a three-way with a john who will pay $500 for the trick. Noelle had been trying to find another man to do the job, but was unable to find one on such short notice.
Noelle implies that she needs the money to pay off a third party, and she figures Chris owes her. Despite not identifying himself as being gay or even bisexual despite having previously had a relationship with a man, Chris agrees. As Chris and Noelle's encounter progresses, what they displayed on the surface in entering into this agreement may not be their true motivation - or the motivation for Chris making this visit after all this time - as they talk about money, drugs, power and control, and Noelle's ex-boyfriend Martin.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
1982 Paradise..not bad
In the Georgian era, in 1823, David (Aames) and sarah (Cates), 2 teenagers, travel with a caravan from Bagdad to damascus. At associate oasis, the fancy woman agent 'Jackal' raids them, principally to feature the gorgeous young sarah to his hareem. David and sarah and her servant, Geoffrey, narrowly escape, however all the others are slain within the massacre together with David's american missionary parents. However, Geoffrey does not survive long, as he sees an encampment that, unbeknownst to him, is travel by the jackal. Geoffrey goes to the encampment seeking facilitate however is killed by the jackal because the remaining duo takes a rest in a very near district on their westerly direction toward civilization.
Sarah and David's flight leads them to a fine looking oasis—their peaceful place in paradise—where they discover natural love and their physiological property. However, the jackal has not given au courant sarah yet, and David should lure him to his death, or be killed by him.
In the film's ending, David confronts the jackal and is in a position to kill him. sarah reveals to David that she is pregnant and therefore the 2 young lovers have finally reached civilization, town of damascus.
Comedy of 1982: Vai avanti tu che mi viene da ridere
Commissioner Pasquale Bellachioma is a willing policeman who with trust Cavicchioli looking to stand for commitment and dedication to service, but because of his clumsiness no one guesses. One day his ex-wife, remarried to a musician named Gianni, before leaving for his second honeymoon entrusts his St. Bernard dog and their teenage son.
But the worst is yet to come: in fact, the agent receives the news that he was transferred to San Vito Alto, a town in the province of Trento , described dall'appuntato on duty as a sort of outpost Siberian (his predecessor died of pneumonia in August while there were 20 degrees below zero, maximum). The village is also described as "the last police station before the border." The transfer must be made in a day, but Fairhair learns that the next day will be in Rome the sheik Abadjan, which has already suffered numerous attacks for its stated intention to sell oil at rates different from those of the other producing countries.
The only survivor of the attacks is the transvestite Andrea . Commissioner delaying the start with an apology and decides to investigate the case privately. It is the first to find Andrea, the stops and then protects it, to escape the killer of the oil tycoon, who is also on his trail. Being together with him if they become attached, but will not admit it. Andrea notices it and reveals that it is not a man, but a woman in all respects: it is a disguised fake just to escape the killer. His real name is Andrea and Maria Richter was born in Lugano , in Switzerland .
The tanker arrived in Rome protected by a huge security service, but the murderess still managed to get to Villa Borghese , where you hold the reception in his honor. Bellachioma, with a fortuitous but timely intervention, manages to save his life. Consequently, the transfer is canceled and the Commissioner is rewarded with a medal: now can finally live with his beloved, even if the last scene the doubt on her sex remains.
Nice of 1974: Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres
Longtime friends, Vincent, François, Paul - entrepreneur respectively doctor and writer - all fifty, meet regularly with others, including a young boxer Jean, to drink, eat, or for spending purposes week to discuss the campaign together. They cross all more or less bad sentimental or professional pass. Vincent, for example, who was one of the strongest of them, hardly limping along since his wife Catherine left him; He also faces financial difficulties in its business.
And it is precisely as a result of a heart problem experienced by Vincent suddenly all around him will gradually become aware of the relativity of their personal problems.Vincent, François, Paul ... and the other is a film Franco - Italian directed by Claude Sautet , released in 1974 .
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