Vauro Senesi

Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship.

After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.

This is the story of 3 friends, destined to lose and find each other over and over again. More importantly, this is the (true) story of a film theatre in Florence, The Universale, which was a cultural landmark in the city between the '60s and the '80s. It was a theater of its own kind, bringing together intellectuals, students, as well as the people from San Frediano, a well-known working-class Quartiere. Such unusual mixture among the cinema-goers also produced a sort of creative chaos, which is explored through the eyes of Tommaso, the projectionist's son.

Trois histoires d'amour à différents âges : la jeunesse, la maturité, l'âge de raison. La jeunesse : Roberto est un jeune avocat ambitieux ; il doit épouser Sara. Tout semble planifié dans sa vie. Au cours d'une expropriation dont il est chargée, il rencontre Micol, magnifique et provocante jeune femme d'un petit village Toscan. Tout se complique alors. La maturité : Fabio, présentateur vedette du journal télévisé, est un mari irréprochable depuis 25 ans. Lors d'une soirée, il rencontre Eliana, une femme fatale pleine d'imprévus. Lorsque celle-ci ne veut plus le quitter, cette histoire qui devait être sans lendemain s'avère plus difficile à maîtriser. L'âge de raison : Adrian est un professeur américain d'histoire de l'art. Depuis son divorce, il a décidé de vivre à Rome. Il est ami avec Augusto, le concierge de l'immeuble. Sa fille, la fulminante viola, vient bouleverser la tranquille existence d'Adrian, qui va ressentir des émotions jusque-là éteintes...