28/05/2015 - There are some top-quality Italian and European films hitting screens, with Faber in Sardegna, a comedy starring Battiston and Minervini’s docu-film from the latest Cannes

Faber in Sardegna by Fabrizio De André

Hitting Italian theatres is The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet [+see also:
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There’s no shortage of Italian films this week: first up is a comedy starring Giuseppe Battiston, Pitza e datteri [+see also:
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In addition to Jeunet’s film, the European offering is also rich this week: The Tribe [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)