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3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 9125 times
and 3 of my stories have been cherry picked.
JULIAN
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Respiro
Set on the beautiful and sun-drenched fishing island of Lampedusa, to the south of Sicily, Emmanuele Crialese's eerie and sensual 2002 Cannes Critics Week Grand Prize Winner is a celebration of the natural whilst a depiction of the harsh and stifling ways of traditional island life.
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- 980 reads
Iron 3
Young Tae Suk rides around the city on his motorbike, stopping to attach flyers to the front doors of varying neighbourhoods' homes. He returns a couple of days later. If a flyer is unclaimed, this means the owner is away.
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- 905 reads
Umberto D
Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a retired civil servant, played by Carlo Battisti, struggles to get by on a meagre state pension in post-war Rome. He takes to the streets in protest, alongside scores of agitated pensioners who are easily forced back in retreat. His rental debt to a tyrannical landlady, in whose house he has been resident for twenty years, escalates beyond hope. As part-payment, but to his shame, Umberto's room is hired out to prostitutes by the hour. His only friends are an adoring dog, Flik, and the pregnant maid, Maria, played by Maria-Pia Casilio, in whom our leading man confides.
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- 1014 reads
Ossessione
Luchino Visconti, Aristocrat and Marxist, became interested in film-making when Coco Chanel introduced him to Renoir. His first feature, Ossessione, going by the working title of Palude, was adapted from James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The film, accompanied by a powerful and tense music score, was made in 1942 war-torn Italy and immediately banned by the Fascist dictatorship.
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- 961 reads
Notes from Perugia
Sprawled on the steps of Perugia's Cattedrale San Lorenzo, the city's Dome completed in 1490, I sense a visual and audible disturbance making its way down the main thoroughfare, Corso Vannucci, linking the Dome and the Fontana Maggiore to Piazza Italia where tourists and lovers alike take in the magnificent bella vista of the lush green Umbrian hills.
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- 637 reads