Movies: Maria D'Amato

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occ...

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Abandoned House is about a group of young people in Italy who exchange stories. The protagonist Maria listens to young men and women who report on sexual abuse and warped pleasure and she seems to feel the need to manipulate their vulnerability and r...

An intoxicating chronicle of the romantic liaisons of a group of beautiful young men and women in their Mediterranean idyll. Living in a rundown rural Italian villa, there’s little for them to do but sit around and have sex with each other....