Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet." A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi....

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we’re back in Milan for more from the Spring/Summer 2015 collections! Versace delivers serious sex appeal for spring, with an optic reinterpretation of the house’s signature Medusa motif, and silhouettes that leave very little to the imagination. For his Spring 2015 Emporio Armani collection, Giorgio Armani explores 50 shades of … blue! Take a first look at Roberto Cavalli’s ready-to-travel Spring/Summer...

Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian...

A forgotten classic, Crime of love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, streetwear meets sports in a high-energy runway show from Peter Dundas’ collection for Emilio Pucci. Katie Grand Loves Hogan! The Editor-in-Chief of Love Magazine designs her third capsule collection for Hogan, with a presentation of playful polka dots and heart-shaped logos on pastel hued fine leather pouches, handbags and the brand’s signature platform sneakers. The designer duo of Aquilano.Rimondi...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we touchdown in Milan for the third leg of our multi-city fashion tour! The 70s get sophisticated and ultra-luxe on Frida Giannini’s Gucci runway! Designer Antonio Marras takes eccentric artist Carol Rama as his spring muse. Take a first look at Philipp Plein’s otherworldly “Abyss Apocalypse” Spring 2015 runway. Plus, Roberto Cavalli celebrates freedom and love with his vibrant and youthful Just Cavalli...

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven beauties), Love and anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini (The seduction of Mimi) won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè (Mariangela Melato), a prostitute...

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their...

Twenty, beautiful, sexy and liberated, and fed up with their provincial lives, Lia and Tina decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love ... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang which all culminates with a brutal and unexpected violent end. Sex and politics caused the censoring of...

A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, SALVO is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house on an assignment, he discovers Rita, an innocent young blind girl who must stand by powerlessly while her brother is assassinated. What follows is an intense exchange fueled by adrenaline and fear between the killer and his witness, one that changes their two lives in an instant. The darkness is lifted from Rita’s eyes just as SALVO decides, against...