Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gina is not very happy about the role she has to play in the hotel caper. Eva gets a few surprises: one by mail and one in person.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva is stuck in the hotel room with her prey, but after a quick S.O.S. via text to the girls next door, Lola leaps into action.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alba shows up in the director's hotel room and the girls wait to see whether or not their plan has worked.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The girls "take care" of the suffering man, and get him to sign a paper. Back at the restaurant, Dante has been lovingly creative in the kitchen.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We're back at the restaurant where Eva tries to guess the ingredients in Dante's new dish. Alba is there too to celebrate some good news. The commissioner of police happens to show up, as well and has some bizarre questions for Andreina.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A young man is departing by train and says goodbye to his two parents in different ways. In another scene, a little girl is going to school very reluctantly and her brother has to practically drag her there.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We meet a few of the musicians attending the conservatory and the orchestra conductor, who is no-nonsense and stern.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo makes his way to his uncle's apartment. Never mind that his uncle was supposed to come to the station to get him... They agree that there is no point in worrying Matteo's father with the truth.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo arrives late for class and is told, to sit next to Sara who begins asking him questions. It turns out she is almost blind. After the lesson, Matteo meets some of his classmates.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A teacher reads a passage from one of Shakespeare's sonnets and asks the class to interpret it. Matteo speaks up. Here is the original English: "Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo is having a violin lesson when Marioni passes by in the hall and hears him. Matteo's lesson ends early and he is about to learn more about the orchestra conductor everyone thinks of as il bastardo (the bastard).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marioni puts Matteo to the test, asking him to play first violin in the Brahms symphony, together with the entire orchestra. Later, Domenico tells him about someone who had crumbled under Marioni's harsh treatment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A colleague of Marioni's chides him for having treated Matteo as he did. He tries to justify his actions, and then goes to have a word with Rosario, a percussion student.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo is at home with his uncle, doing a tricky jigsaw puzzle and ready for dinner. Even though it is clear to Matteo that his uncle is gay, his uncle is very uncomfortable talking about it. Matteo lets his uncle know that there is a girl he likes.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Based on a true story, this film takes place in Scampia, a poor, crowded suburb just outside Naples. Having one of the highest rates of unemployment in Italy, the Camorra gets its way with many of the kids from this neighborhood, but Gianni also saves many kids by getting them involved in judo.
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