Giulia Urso

Bir yönetmen kamerasını İtalya ve Fransa'da farklı şehirlere çevirir. Gözlerinin önünde 4 farklı aşk öyküsü şekillenir. Her öyküde öne çıkan kahramanlar kadınlardır. Kameranın büyük bir dinginlik ve sabırla izlediği bu öykülerde sıradan insanların derin, felsefi arayışları vardır. Yönetmenin her öyküden bir film yaratması mümkündür: Asla bir araya gelemeyen aşıklar, cinayet zanlısı bir genç kız, ayrılan çiftler, manastır yaşamını seçen bir genç kadın. Sinema sanatına katkılarından dolayı Oscar Onur Ödülü alan yönetmen Michelangelo Antonioni'nin bu görkemli ve düşündürücü filmi biçimsel açıdan Avrupa sinemasının mirasını yansıtır. Wim Wenders'ın çektiği bölümlerle birbirine bağlanan öyküler İtalyanca, İngilizce, Fransızca ve ayrıca müzik ve sessizliğin diliyle aktarılır...

Garsonluk yapan Parisli genç bir kadının hayatının tek gününden bir kesit. Dört yıldızlı bir otelde işe başlayan Valérie, aynı gün, sevgilisine hamile olduğunu açıklar.

Martha, an American lady who has lived in Italy for many years without ever learning the language; and Renato, twenty five years younger than Martha, who for all his life has been working odd jobs and has no place to call home. Martha's home is a house in Tuscany she has inherited from her grandfather. There she lived and brought up her children after an early divorce. Martha, who at times suffers from a sudden loss of memory, and her obsession with the large country home, has become a nuisance to her children. They have send their mother to a care center, and are trying to sell the house. We meet Renato when he has just taken on a job for a small detective agency that specializes in divorce cases. He is observing two lovers traveling together through Northern Italy when he meets Martha who has run away from the care center.

It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.

Alessia, a TV showgirl, tries to win the favor of an official. Amalia, a morning show host, satisfies the masochistic director in order to go to prime time. Stefania "works hard" to act in a risqué film by a famous director, but the part is stolen from her by her friend Beatrice, apparently only devoted to her studies.

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance that flourishes on a tranquil Christmas evening and disrupts everything, only to disappear as quickly as it arrived.