Marta Lina Comerio

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt’s apartment in town. In Turin Pauline contacts Dr. Angela Gualtieri, a psychologist whom she had met abroad some time before; Angela runs a maternity centre, the Melograno, a support centre where both mothers to be and young mothers with post natal depression seek help. At the Melograno they are constantly short of help, that’s why Angela asks Pauline to give her a hand in setting up an in-house archive collecting different material relating to maternity: video interviews to new mothers, mothers diaries, photo portraits of mother and child. Pauline accepts and starts her work plunging deep in an emotional material that touches her strongly: the controversial feelings experienced by women in their relation with the child.

En été, Forte dei Marmi est une ville tranquille, un petit coin de paradis pour ses citoyens aisés. En hiver, les journées raccourcissent, les nuits s’allongent et les villas deviennent de petites forteresses gardées par des circuits sophistiqués de caméras de sécurité. C’est une histoire d’hiver, une histoire qui bouleverse la vie de ses personnages et les change à jamais. Lorsque la peur habite à l’intérieur des maisons et des gens, quel est le prix de la sécurité?

Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, including the Plague.

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