Bari has a charming old town called Barivecchia, which sits between two harbours and has narrow streets. Sofia Loren’s performance as Madame Rosa pulls you in as she brings life to a complex character who has been through the school of hard knocks yet still has it in her to be generous.įilmed in: Bari, an Adriatic Seaport and capital of the Puglia region. Madame Rosa is on a mission to look after the kids that nobody cares about.Īs she nears the end of her life, she befriends a 12-year-old boy from Senegal.
So one of the unusual things about The Life Ahead is her role as an elderly Holocaust survivor who was a former prostitute who looks after the children of local sex workers.
Most viewers are used to seeing international movie goddess Sofia Loren play a young and desirable siren role. It’s known as the city of water and stone, with its rock churches, and where Pope Benedetto XIII was born.Ĭast: Gaia Bermani Amaral, Valentina Cervi, Antonio Gerardi, Giovanni Cirfiera, Giuseppe Nardone.īari is a beautiful destination for the backdrop of this Italian movie. The Last Paradiso focuses on community and makes a statement about the age-old class struggle and forbidden love based on actual events.įilmed in: Gravina in Puglia, which is a town in the Metropolitan City of Bari. Shots of Ciccio’s mother kneading dough, women washing laundry in a river and the golden fields are a joy to watch. The stunning cinematography of green hills and the historic aqueducts will have you yearning to visit southern Italy while the details about the characters’ daily lives are outstanding. Last Paradiso transports you to the 1950s to a southern Italian town where Ciccio Paradiso, a notorious adulterer, dreams about either wrestling power from the wealthy men who control the town or leaving to travel the world. Gravina in Puglia is the real star of this Italian movie. Martin and Sant’Agostino.Ĭast: Marco D’Amore, Maya Sansa and Valeria Bilello. Pietrasanta is another former Roman coastal town called “Little Athens of Italy” and is known for its architecture and historic buildings such as the Cathedral of St.
Forte Dei Marmi is a popular holiday town for wealthy Italians, with its lovely beaches, cultural heritage, markets and historical significance (it was a strategic place for the Roman army). They edited the film in LA and did post-production in Rome to launch on Netflix a few days before the second lockdown in Italy.įilmed in: Tuscany, mainly in Forte Dei Marmi and Pietrasanta in Lucca province. The director (Peter Chelsom), was down on his luck in Hollywood, so he went to Italy to make a low-budget thriller, which became a global hit. Security is a well-constructed drama about the secrets people keep and finished filming just before the first COVID lockdown. The town’s head of security is faced with untangling a web of deceit, and he uses his access to surveillance systems to discover everyone’s secrets. It starts when a girl accuses one of the wealthiest residents in the town of rape, but no one believes her because her father had been arrested for pedophilia. The movie is based around an incident that disrupts characters’ lives in an idyllic town, changing them forever.
Security is an Italian mystery movie based on a crime thriller by American author Stephen Amidon. Pietrasanta is where some of the scenes were shot in the Italian movie ‘Security’.