Jep Gambardella, the narcissistic and excessive central character in Sorrentino’s allegory of Silvio Berlusconi.
Allociné
The Oscar-winning film sketches out the broad themes of Berluconist hedonism, all against the backdrop of the decline of ideologies that shaped 20th-century Italy.
The Conformist (1970)
IMDB
In this 1970 Italian classic, director Bernardo Bertolucci uses the camera frame to throw the audience off-kilter again and again.
A graffiti tribute in Rome to Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone, created by artist Harrygrebdesign.
EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI
The composer of over 500 film scores, Morricone was embraced by Hollywood — but he was always an Italian composer.
La Strada won Best Foreign Language Film at the 1957 Oascars.
StudioCanal
The movie that won the first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film has just been re-released and presents a challenging vision of gender relations.
Malachi Kirby as enslaved man Kunta Kinte, in the new adaptation of Roots.
BBC
The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.