Marco tullio giordana biography of alberta
A father tries to communicate with his son Matteo, but Matteo is annoyed by his old-fashioned manners. His other son Nicola is much more friendly. Nicola is also much more interested in girls than Matteo is. He asks their friend Carlo to use his beach house for a date with a girl. Matteo instead volunteers to take care of a retarded girl who is hospitalized in a clinic.
The girl, Giorgia, is hostile and violent. Back home Matteo finds his parents arguing as usual. His father has decided to mortgage the house in order to invest in his business, and his mother is terrified by the chance that they will lose the house. Matteo goes out again in the middle of the night. He takes Nicola and two friends to a prostitute's meeting point, marked by a fire in a bucket.
Cati forces a reluctant Nicola to have sex with her and tells him that Matteo is strange. Matteo, a very devoted student of Literature, flunks the final examination on religious poetry because he gets annoyed by the conventional wisdom of his professor. He then shows Nicola photos that prove how Giorgia has been subjected to electric shocks in the clinic.
Nicola too is studying for the final examination. He is studying Medicine. His friends Carlo and Berto are studying Philosophy and Economics. During the night Matteo enters the clinic and kidnaps Giorgia. The following morning Nicola's elderly professor likes his attitude and gives him a good grade. Then he talks to him like a father and advises him to leave Italy: Italy is a country that is dying.
After the exam, the brothers are ready to leave for a vacation in northern Europe. When Matteo shows up with Giorgia, Nicola changes plans. Matteo and Nicola take the train and begin a journey to find Giorgia a new home. Her father does not want her. An angry Matteo hits him and Giorgia resents it, feeling more comfortable with Nicola. Their older sister Giovanna, who is a lawyer, advised them to deliver Giorgia to an asylum that has the reputation of being more humane, but, while they are waiting for the train, Giorgia is picked up by the police.
The brothers cannot do anything. Matteo decides to return home and enroll in the army, while Nicola continues the journey. Matteo has to shave his hair while Nicola meets some hippies and lets his hair and beard grow. Matteo becomes an asocial element, an overzealous soldier disliked by both his fellow soldiers and his superiors, while Nicola becomes a simpler man, happy to just hitchhike around Norway and neglecting to return to Italy for his studies.
Eventually, Nicola runs out of money and finds a job in a sawmill. There he meets a gorgeous blond who invites him to her house and slips into his bed. In the morning, though, she wakes him up with the news that a terrible flood has devastated Firenze, and Nicola travels back to Italy as a volunteer to help the victims. He meets Matteo again, who is dispatched there with the army.
He also meets Carlo and Berto again. He was 49 when he starred in this movie. Since , he has appeared in 28 feature films. The last one is Citizen Rosi In this movie, we watched him as himself. Marco Tullio Giordana was born on the 1st of October , which was a Sunday. He will be turning 75 in only days from today 28 January, Download as PDF Printable version.
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Marco tullio giordana biography of alberta
Italian director and screenwriter born Biography [ edit ]. Filmography [ edit ]. Director [ edit ]. So I'm not familiar with the liturgy of it at all. I respect it, but I wouldn't know. The only mass that I hear is in C minor, by Bach. Can you talk about how the film bridges fantasy and realism? I think it's just connected to the imagination of children, you know, that the fantasy that they have is so strong.
They do see things that grown-ups don't see, like in the stone dwarves, who suddenly smile and somehow communicate to them. And this is strictly connected to my own experience as a child. I remember that I saw ghosts and they were not scaring me, quite the opposite! And I'm really sorry I'm no longer able to see them. It's primal.