Italy loves romance. Whether the love is banned, consensual, very unlikely or successful, this subject is certain to be a assured formula for any director who would like to move his audience. We have selected 5 of Italy's most moving romantic films.
Life is Stunning - La vita e bella (1997)
The winner of a Golden Palm at Cannes and an Oscar, this film, regarded by many critics as a masterpiece and starring the respected Roberto Benigni, tells of a love story set amid WW2. Guido is a dreamer who moves to the town to start a new life. On how he meets Dora (Nicoletta Brashi), the heiress of a multi-millionaire family. The relationship appears difficult, until Guido takes the problem into his very own hands and runs to Dora on her wedding day. Years after, the loving couple face problems again when the horrors of war split them apart, maybe for all time.
Senso (1954)
Set in Italy around 1866, near the end of the Italian-Austrian war of unification, the film opens with a performance of Il Trovatore. All of a sudden, the opera is interrupted by a major protest of Italian Jingoists against the occupying Austrian troops. Livia, an Italian Countess who is unhappily married to an old aristocrat, attempts to hide the undeniable fact that her own cousin Marquis Roberto Ussoni arranged the protest. During the uproar, she meets a dashing young Austrian Officer named Franz Mahler, and becomes straight away obsessed with him. The two begin a secret, banned love affair. Regardless of the apparent fact that Franz was accountable for sending Roberto into exile for his radical behavior, Livia vainly pretends not to be aware of it.
The Life I Want - La vita che vorrei (2004)
The film tells the story of Laura (Sandra Ceccarelli), a keen, impetuous young girl taking her first uncertain steps in the world of acting.? At an audition for a period drama, she meets the famous actor Stefano (Luigi Lo Cascio), who?s struck by Laura's weakness and beauty.? The 2 are cast opposite one another as lovers embroiled in a secret, forbidden affair. As their dramatic, whirlwind love unfolds, the couple is thrown thru many twists and turns, and both start to wonder whether they are right for each other or not.
The Tiger and the Snow La tigre e la nieve (2005)
Starring the prolific Roberto Benigni, The Tiger and The Snow is a fairytale where dreams of love embrace reality. In the film, Attilio (Roberto Benigni) is a divorced professor of literature who has fallen deeply crazy about a pretty girl named Vittoria (Nicoletta Brashi). She nonetheless , is blind to his love, even after he follows her on her flight to Iraq . Even if she is seriously injured and falls into a coma, his love still remains robust. ?The story, developed thru flashbacks, builds to a stunning twist, exposing that Vittoria is really Atilo?s wife.
Bread, Love and Dreams - Pane, amore e fantasia(1953)
Directed by Luigi Comincini, and starred by Vittorio DeSica and Gina Lollobrigida, this film tells the story of Marshall Antonio Carotenuto, a person sent to Sagliena, a miniscule, hypothetical hamlet in the center of 1950s Italy. Eager to find the perfect wife, he's determined to make the young Maria de Ritis his bride. Sadly, she's already crazy about Carotenuto shy subordinate, Stelluti. Mistaking her headstrong behaviour for promiscuity, De Sica makes advances towards her, but she rejects him. In despair, De Sica comes to a decision to accept hamlet midwife Annarella.
Life is Stunning - La vita e bella (1997)
The winner of a Golden Palm at Cannes and an Oscar, this film, regarded by many critics as a masterpiece and starring the respected Roberto Benigni, tells of a love story set amid WW2. Guido is a dreamer who moves to the town to start a new life. On how he meets Dora (Nicoletta Brashi), the heiress of a multi-millionaire family. The relationship appears difficult, until Guido takes the problem into his very own hands and runs to Dora on her wedding day. Years after, the loving couple face problems again when the horrors of war split them apart, maybe for all time.
Senso (1954)
Set in Italy around 1866, near the end of the Italian-Austrian war of unification, the film opens with a performance of Il Trovatore. All of a sudden, the opera is interrupted by a major protest of Italian Jingoists against the occupying Austrian troops. Livia, an Italian Countess who is unhappily married to an old aristocrat, attempts to hide the undeniable fact that her own cousin Marquis Roberto Ussoni arranged the protest. During the uproar, she meets a dashing young Austrian Officer named Franz Mahler, and becomes straight away obsessed with him. The two begin a secret, banned love affair. Regardless of the apparent fact that Franz was accountable for sending Roberto into exile for his radical behavior, Livia vainly pretends not to be aware of it.
The Life I Want - La vita che vorrei (2004)
The film tells the story of Laura (Sandra Ceccarelli), a keen, impetuous young girl taking her first uncertain steps in the world of acting.? At an audition for a period drama, she meets the famous actor Stefano (Luigi Lo Cascio), who?s struck by Laura's weakness and beauty.? The 2 are cast opposite one another as lovers embroiled in a secret, forbidden affair. As their dramatic, whirlwind love unfolds, the couple is thrown thru many twists and turns, and both start to wonder whether they are right for each other or not.
The Tiger and the Snow La tigre e la nieve (2005)
Starring the prolific Roberto Benigni, The Tiger and The Snow is a fairytale where dreams of love embrace reality. In the film, Attilio (Roberto Benigni) is a divorced professor of literature who has fallen deeply crazy about a pretty girl named Vittoria (Nicoletta Brashi). She nonetheless , is blind to his love, even after he follows her on her flight to Iraq . Even if she is seriously injured and falls into a coma, his love still remains robust. ?The story, developed thru flashbacks, builds to a stunning twist, exposing that Vittoria is really Atilo?s wife.
Bread, Love and Dreams - Pane, amore e fantasia(1953)
Directed by Luigi Comincini, and starred by Vittorio DeSica and Gina Lollobrigida, this film tells the story of Marshall Antonio Carotenuto, a person sent to Sagliena, a miniscule, hypothetical hamlet in the center of 1950s Italy. Eager to find the perfect wife, he's determined to make the young Maria de Ritis his bride. Sadly, she's already crazy about Carotenuto shy subordinate, Stelluti. Mistaking her headstrong behaviour for promiscuity, De Sica makes advances towards her, but she rejects him. In despair, De Sica comes to a decision to accept hamlet midwife Annarella.
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