La prima cosa bella

'La prima cosa bella’ is a melting and poetic family portrait set in Tuscany and was chosen to represent Italy in the next Oscar race for the Best Foreign Film that will be held in Los Angeles in February 2011. Challenging goal for the film director Paolo Virzì which tells the story of the disillusioned Bruno and his relationship with his mother Anna, a beautiful and energic woman. Bruno, the eldest, is a professor of literature unhappy, insecure and problematic, with no relations with his mother and sister Valeria that is a neurotic employee fled into the arms of a talkative husband. Bruno reconciles with the two women only after learning that his mother is seriously ill and this will be an opportunity for him and his sister to digest a mother really bulky, but also capable of outbursts of unusual love. The childhood memories are the real filter of this story of Bruno and Valeria, both adults and suffering. And around the charismatic Anna the story turns around and takes form. Touching.

People meet in architecture

These are images taken at the 12th Venice Architectural Biennale. This edition is called ‘People meet in architecture’ and is curated for the first time by a woman, the architect Kazuyo Sejima. The choice of the 53 national participants in the exhibition and collateral events is related to how architecture can clarify new values and propose a new lifestyle for the present due to the many radical changes that are taking place in our life. The Biennale will be open until November 21st 2010 and is worth a visit. http://www.labiennale.org/