Christmas At The Movies In Italy

Cinepanettone and other Christmas fun that you’ll want to check out if you don’t need subtitles.

Buon Natale!

La Banda Dei Babbi Natale

Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo get confused with robbers who dress break into houses dressed like Santa Claus. Also starring Angela Finocchiaro, this is my favorite, and it would be an injustice to call it Cinepanettone.

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Natale a New York

Classic Christian De Sica plus gratuitous sex equals a very “so bad it’s good” merry Christmas in New York.

IL PEGGIOR NATALE DELLA MIA VITA

Fabio De Luigi and Cristiana Capotondi star in a big mess of a Christmas movie about a couple who decide to have their baby in the most inconvenient way possible.

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Una Famiglia Perfetta

Not exactly Cinepanettone, but a kind of Italian version of Bad Santa with dark humor and a great cast; Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini, and Marco Giallini are lots of fun in this story of man who hires actors to play his “perfect family”.

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INDOVINA CHI VIENE A NATALE

New for Christmas 2013, Raoul Bova plays a guy that meets his girlfriend’s parents for Christmas. He’s handsome and everything, but for some medical reason that makes no sense at all, he doesn’t have the use of his arms. (Don’t ask me, I haven’t seen it yet.)

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