Margarita Lozano – MRQE

Con gli occhi chiusi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.

Il sole anche di notte

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King’s mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is undeserving of the adulation, leaves the hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar.

Manon des sources

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father’s land years earlier.

La Mitad del cielo

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.

Jean de Florette

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter’s hearts, they think only of getting the water.

Kaos

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.

La Notte di San Lorenzo

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Porcile

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm’s pigs, because he doesn’t like human relationships.

Un bellissimo novembre

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.

La Monaca di Monza

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as “The Nun of Monza,” a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.