Get Your Credit Cards Out: 3 Great Movies Are Coming To DVD In March

I’ve been asking everyone about when I would finally get to see directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s award-winning Salvo for months and finally I have a date for its DVD release: March 27; you can reserve your copy now. Salvo stars Saleh Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Luigi Lo Cascio, Giuditta Perriera, and Mario Pupella and is about a cold-hearted and solitary Mafia hit man who arrives at a house to kill a rival, but instead finds the man’s blind sister. Salvo succeeds in eliminating his target, but is spares the blind sister. When it’s suddenly obvious that she can see a little, the question is this: Is it a miracle? Miracle or not, a bond is formed between the two in an unconventional way.

Salvo premiered at Cannes and won the Critics Week Grand Prize. The DVD has the option for English subtitles.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Filipo Timi in 'Un Castella in Italia' — Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Filipo Timi in ‘Un Castella in Italia’

Also coming, March 18 : Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Un Castello in Italia. I’ve spoken with many of you in Europe that have had the opportunity to see this one in the theaters, and one thing is clear; you either loved it or you hated it. Starring Tedeschi, Filipo Timi, Louis Garrel, Marysa Borini, and Silvio Orlando, Un Castello in Italia is Tedeschi’s semi-autobiographical story of bourgeois family that is forced to sell the family home in Italy. Inspired by two events in her own life — the 2006 death of her brother, Virginio, from AIDS and her 2009 adoption of an African baby together with then-partner Louis Garrel, it was nominated for the Palme D’Or at Cannes.

Lorenzo Richelmy, Enrico Maria Artale and Margherita Laterza at the premier of 'Il Terzo Tempo'. — Lorenzo Richelmy, Enrico Maria Artale and Margherita Laterza at the premier of ‘Il Terzo Tempo’.

And one more; “feel good” sports movie Il Terzo Tempo has finally found its way to DVD form. Having premiered at Venice last year, I was there to see director Enrico Maria Artale present it with stars Lorenzo Richelmy, Stefano Cassetti, and Margherita Laterza.

“Il Terzo Tempo” is apparently a rugby term and the movie tells the story of Samuel, played by Lorenzo Richelmy, in and out of juvie and on his way to doing hard time. His mother is a drug addict and he never knew his father, so when his parole officer, an ex-rugby star played by Stefano Cassetti, gives him the chance to play on his rugby team, he’s able get a little of his aggression out of his system and discover the value of working with a team. This one’s available March 5.