Italian filmmakers helping you be a better you.
The book Who moved my Cheese? helps the reader deal with change in the workplace, but this film from Silvio Soldini lets us watch a couple (Margherita Buy and Antonio Albanese) go through it. Unemployment is a bitch for Else and Michele in Giorni e Nuvole.
I’m OK, You’re OK; maybe somebody should have told that to Antonio (Luigi Lo Cascio) in Giuseppe Piccioni’s Luce Dei Miei Occhi. A little self-esteem never hurt anyone when the woman they love just isn’t that into them.
Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers is a blueprint for success that some of the characters in Suburra must have made use of, and some clearly did not. Watch badass Viola (Greta Scarano) make the most of her human potential.
Thirteen-year-old Marta didn’t need The Power of Now to tell her that spirituality can’t be force-fed. Watch her figure it out for herself in Alice Rohrwacher’s lovely film Corpo Celeste.
Maybe somebody should have given this new Pope a copy of What Color Is Your Parachute? before he ever even became a priest. Nanni Moretti tells a very sweet and sensitive story about a pontiff in need of a career counseling in Habemus Papam (We Have A Pope).
A self-help book about healing and loss probably wouldn’t have been much use to Anna (Juliette Binoche); she just needs to wait out the pain in L’Attesa (The Wait).
Dr. Phil, send a copy of your Self Matters ASAP to poor little Aria in Asia Argento’s NOT A BIOGRAPHY (or so she says) Incompresa (Misunderstood).
Dying to be Thin? (Hungry Hearts), starring Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher will scare you straight and convince you to eat something.
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