Movies Starring Donatella Finocchiaro
Total movies found: 2, viewing from 1 to 2
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Senza arte né parte
[ 2011, Italy ] starting from $1.99Genres: Comedy
Actors: Giuseppe Battiston, Giulio Beranek, Mariolina De Fano, Daniele Esposito, Donatella Finocchiaro, Ernesto Mahieux, Vincenzo Salemme, Paolo Sassanelli, Hassani Shapi
Directors: Giovanni Albanese
Salento. The prize-winning Tammaro pasta factory decides to modernise. The old factory is closed and a new one opened, completely mechanised. The whole team of workers find themselves dismissed without notice. Enzo a wife a two small children , Carmine with his ageing mother and Bandula, an Indian immigrant, remain unemployed and penniless. But in that same period, Tammaro’s wife inherits a bizarre collection of contemporary art, which is stored in the old pasta factory. Enzo Carmine and Badula have been offered a temporary job, paid under the table, as watchman of the warehouse where the art collection is stored. Enzo and his friends, to their amazement, discover contemporary art. Their anger mounts: with what these things cost, Tammaro could have hired them all back again! Our desperate heroes, with no money or jobs, mastermind a diabolical plan: make some fakes and replace them in the collection of the unaware Tammaro. Then sell the originals themselves. The fraud takes off in grand style and for Carmine, Enzo and Badula starts the more incredible adventure of their lives.
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I baci mai dati
[ 2010, Italy ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: Piera Degli Esposti, Donatella Finocchiaro, Beppe Fiorello, Carla Marchese, Pino Micol
Directors: Roberta Torre
Manuela is a 13-year-old girl from the sprawling, dilapidated suburb of Librino in southern Sicily. She lives with her dysfunctional family and works sweeping floors in a hair salon. After the head of a Virgin Mary statue disappears, Manuela announces one morning that the Madonna appeared to her in a dream—and told her the whereabouts of the statue’s head! As news of the vision spreads, Manuela’s quixotic mother realizes there’s good money in miracles. But was it a miracle, or was Manuela just bored? A playful satire, Lost Kisses feels like the collision of a moral tale and a fairy tale. Director Roberta Torre, whose prior work includes a musical about the Mafia, strikes a clever tone, mixing drab realism with sardonic humor, splashes of vibrant color, and fabulist flourishes (it’s an exceedingly bizarre hair salon). While the film plays with the idea of miracles in our image-obsessed material world, it is grounded emotionally in the relationship between mother and daughter.

