https://mrqe.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/west-and-soda-m100109016/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/west-and-soda-m100109016/ West and soda is a 1965 traditionally-animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/la-rabbia-m100098968/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/la-rabbia-m100098968/ Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their “salvation”, and suggesting that their “innocent ferocity” will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi’s part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man’s future.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/il-segreto-di-don-giovanni-m100009527/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/il-segreto-di-don-giovanni-m100009527/ Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna’s burning jealousy.

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