Movies: Alba Rohrwacher

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera....

The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena being brought up by her aunts (Marco Bellocchio's sisters) because her mother Sara is trying to succe...

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In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a...

Simona, in her forties, has been a teacher in Annecy for several years, where she lives with her husband and daughter. As the summer holidays approach, she receives an unexpected message. A past she thought she'd erased resurfaces, questioning and je...

The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, but it is in no way a biopic. It is the story of a woman named Monica, who loses her memory and regains meaning in her life....

Autobiographically based short about the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a deserted, sun drenched Rome....

The ninth short film of the Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series reflects Alice Rohrwacher’s attention to the surreal world of ordinariness and exceptions....

Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument....

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Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn ...

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It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought...