{"id":119,"date":"2008-04-02T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewildeye.co.uk\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-04-02T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T09:55:22","slug":"tutta-la-vita-davanti-nessuna-qualita-agli-eroi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/tutta-la-vita-davanti-nessuna-qualita-agli-eroi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutta la vita davanti, Nessuna Qualita Agli Eroi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week in the Italian cinemas (as with elsewhere, it seems).  The biggest new release is <b>Tutta la vita davanti<\/b>, a comedy directed by Paolo Virzi (who&#8217;s won several awards for his previous films).  To quote from the reviewer on IMDB:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;The vicissitudes of a newly graduated girl in the universe of the precarious work. Marta is a well- educated girl; she is curious and silent one, which finds work in the call center of a company that sells a futuristic appliance. So she finds out a new fantastic world formed by young telephone operator and fanatic seller, corporate jingle, motivational dance, prize giving, ovation and penance. A bittersweet picture of modern society narrated through the eyes of a funny young philosopher&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Virzi&#8217;s films do well in Italy, hardly any of them manage to make it beyond the festival circuit internationally, and I can&#8217;t really see this one being any different.<\/p>\n<p>Another new comedy: <b>Ci sta un Francese, un Inglese e un Napoletano<\/b>, directed by Eduardo Tartaglia.  This would appear to be set in some kind of international peacekeeping mission, where a cowardly Neopolitan called Salvatore (played by Tartaglia) is entrusted with a vital mission.  Unfortunately, this involves marrying a local woman, which doesn&#8217;t go down all that well with his own fiancee.  I&#8217;m not really sure who the Englishman in this is, but I&#8217;d be very surprised if it was ever seen on English shores.<\/p>\n<p>The third new film is undoubtedly the most interesting, so it&#8217;s a shame that hardly anyone seems to be going to watch it!  <b>Nessuna Qualita Agli Eroi<\/b> is a psychological thriller about two men who, <b>Strangers on a Train <\/b>style, swap murders.  This sounds like an angsty, morbid drama, which could be very interesting&#8230; or deathly dull.  Anyway, it gets a broadly positive review in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117934551.html?categoryid=31&amp;cs=1&amp;p=0\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.variety.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>, although the review from the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt1094267\/\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/uk.imdb.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a> sounds less keen.  Anyway, at least it&#8217;s a change from all the comedies that seem to be churned out in Italy&#8230; This played in Venice and has an English version (as &#8216;<b>Fallen Heroes<\/b>&#8216;), as well as a recognisable cast (Maria De Medeiros from <b>Pulp Fiction<\/b>, Irene Jacob from <b>Three Colours Red<\/b>, Alexandra Stewart) so it might make it out somewhere in the English market&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week in the Italian cinemas (as with elsewhere, it seems). The biggest new release is Tutta la vita davanti, a comedy directed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[169,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}