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Open Roads: ‘The Beautiful Summer,’ Pavese Is Deftly Revived

Cesare Pavese was one of Italy’s most influential writers of the 20th century. One of his short stories La bella estate, published in 1949, was part of a book of novellas that won the author the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, in 1950. Decades later the Italian screenwriter-director Laura Luchetti adapted this…

Fairytale, A Transcendental Confrontation Amongst The Most Contentious Legislators In History

The politicians and dictators who have forever changed history meet in Purgatory waiting to find out whether they’ll cross the door to Paradise or descend to Hell. This is the dark and visionary Fairytale (Skazka) brought to life by the revolutionary Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Yosif Stalin, Winston Churchill, Napoleon Bonaparte…

Free Guy, When Video Games Set An Existential Example

The Twentieth Century Studios movie Free Guy, uses video games to create an existentialist parable about humans’ ability to make choices against society’s expectations. Guy is a bank employee (Ryan Reynolds) who discovers he is an NCP (non-player character) in an open world video game, who decides to become the hero of his own story…