2003 film by Alessandro Valori

SE POSSO PERMETTERMI / CHAPTER II is the sequel to the short movie of the same name made in 2019 by Marco Bellocchio and his students in Bobbio as part of the Bottega XNL – Fare Cinema 2023 advanced film training course.
In the first episode, Fausto, an educated man incapable of action, returns to Bobbio following the death of his mother: in his interactions with the town’s characters, he cannot refrain from expressing his unexpected (and inappropriate) judgements sincerely, albeit anticipated by the apparent politeness of a ‘if I may say so…’ (‘se posso permettermi’). In this second chapter, we find Fausto three years later. He never left Bobbio and lives in his mother’s house swamped with books: he is aged and impoverished, does not work and has no pension, and has to sell the house. In the course of a day Fausto, invincible in his inertia, observes a paradoxical procession of visitors: the mellifluous parish priest of the village; a mysterious man with his absurd idea of a ghost-themed business; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes to Fausto a reparatory marriage with his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara’s complicity. Fausto surprises them, as always impassive and bored, and reassures them, there is nothing left, neither gold nor paintings, everything is sold. The three of them just chat until the sun rises, when the thieves leave and Barbara puts the coffee on the stove.

A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others. He runs into a number of people and, after asking their permission, reveals their hidden vices and limitations. It is the only thing that he is able to accomplish, now that rage and destructive energy have given way to imagination and marginal comments.

Elena has just turned 18 and this is her first day working in a coffee bar in Bobbio, a town in the north of Italy. It's summer and the coffee bar is very busy. The first day at work is a chance for Elena to meet lots of different people. Each person has a different story to tell - not just in words but also through simple gestures and actions. These characters can sometimes be quite odd and reflect the countless nuances of the human soul.

It is a unusual documentary that mixes the music of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi with places, faces and voices from Piacenza, a nice place in the north of Italy where Verdi lived and composed his music. Probably it could have been more interesting if the musical part was not so preminent...recommended for Verdi's fans

Using archival footage and interviews with ex-Red Brigade activists and the ex-leader of the Italian Marxist-Leninists, this documentary explores the topics terrorism and the "broken dream" of the communist revolution.

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.

Taken from the play by Anton Chekhov, The Seagull tells of the damatic comparison between two different ways of conceiving life and art. Trigorin, a young writer from the country, is incapable of fulfilling his ambitions, whilst his actress mother and her lover, also a writer, have been successful. What will he choose? To compromise or to die?
Marco Bellocchio says he found the same themes in the play he had explored 12 years before in Fists in the Pocket: madness, envy and impotent rage. The story is used by Bellocchio really to reflect his own ideas: "the images seems to be fixed. arranged in a rhythm that is purpoely not involving, as if I wanted to keep them distant." (Ken Wlaschin, Lodon Film Festival)

The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.

A documentary set in Paola, in Calabria, about the fight to occupy housing.

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.