Marcello Mazzarella
The Sicilian Girl
Den 5.november går den 17-årige sicilianske jenten, Rita Atria, til en anti-mafiadommer for å forråde mafiaen som sto bak mordet på hennes far og hennes bror. Fra den dagen er Ritas dager talte. Hun har ni måneder igjen å leve.
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry
In this daring black comedy, working-class bank clerk Christie Malry (Nick Moran, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels") transforms his drab life with the accounting principle that every debit must be balanced with a credit. From keying a car that nearly ran him down to terrorist acts, the indignant Malry avenges the imagined and real slights against him. Even as he falls in love with the overwhelmingly optimistic Carol, he continues the outrageous misadventures that soon spiral out of control.
L'odore della Notte
Inspired by real events in the Rome of the late 1970s, early 1980s which are chronicled in the evocatively-titled book The Clockwork Orange Gang, Scent of the Night marked Caligari's comeback with a bang. His belated and much-awaited follow-up to Toxic Love polarized and baffled critics and audiences alike, who seemingly couldn't cope with his reboot of the poliziottesco (Italo cop movie) from the 1970s. A real shame, because Caligari elevates a fast-moving thriller about the violent street-and-home-robbery career of a former policeman and his gang-mates to a poignant social-political metaphor. Featuring an iconic performance by Valerio Mastrandrea and interspersed with cinéphile homages ranging from Melville to Bresson, Scent of the Night is the ultimate Italian cult movie of the 1990s. A politically incorrect indictment of a time when the seeds of the vapid hedonism of the Berlusconi age were sown.