Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Ilaria has to call her parents to tell them she is pregnant. She has a story ready for them, but her friends find it far-fetched.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
While they are placing the mirror in Berna's apartment, they see an interview on TV with someone they had known back in the day. Back home, they encourage Francesca to make a certain phone call, showing her how it could play out.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
While delivering the mirror to their friend, Vincenzo wonders why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. They have a ways to go on foot and a while to wait at the door, so there is plenty of time for Andrea to explain.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Francesca is anxious about Vincenzo's phone call from Iceland. He comes back from the phone call happy, but not everyone is as happy as he is.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
After exchanging memories of Michele, the friends take the road back to Pisa, singing a song with very appropriate lyrics; Morirò in un'incidente stradale (I'll die in a car accident). The group that originally recorded the song is I Gatti Mezzi whose songs are in Pisan dialect or vernacolo (vernacular). See the complete lyrics. Back home, there is a phone call for Vincenzo that seems important.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
At the spot where the accident had occurred, the friends wonder how it could have happened since Michele was such a good, careful driver.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Despite the late hour, Vincenzo suggests going to see their friend Michele before they all go off to different destinations.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The group has to figure out the final accounts for the apartment, including some very expensive phone bills they wonder about. Later, they talk about the future and where they think they will end up.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
As they make pasta with whatever scraps of food are left in the fridge, the group discusses Ilaria's predicament, which turns out to be worse than they imagined.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The group goes grocery shopping for their party, but on the way back, Ilaria wants to make a stop. Nobody knows why, or what she plans to do and the situation gets out of hand.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
It's Pisa. A group of university students living in an apartment together have made a home video of the place, which is a mess, partly due to clogged sinks. Their stay is almost at its end and they're taking stock.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Roman
Who is born round...won't die square. That's the way it is for Grandma Italia, after a lifetime of petty thefts and trips to the slammer, she skips out of the nursing home. Not without, however, having first cracked the main office's safe. Her grandson Mario has to find her as soon as possible.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Roman
The Youngest Son, written and directed by the director Pupi Avati, was released in 2010. The main character, Luciano Baietti (Christian De Sica), is an entrepreneur without scruples. In order to succeed, he will stop at nothing, and this includes using his youngest son Baldo (Nicola Nocella).
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
In this scene from the 1960 film He Who Stops Is Lost. Totò plays the part of Antonio Guardalvecchia, and attempts to court Giulia. She's the sister of the president, and he courts her in order to get a job in the head office. The scene on the balcony recalls Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
While everyone is sitting around the table, a phone call comes from the environmental agency saying they will come the next day. There is some panic. Michele keeps his cool.
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