Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Who was the model for Valentina? Certainly, the actress Louise Brooks who portrayed Lulu in the movie Pandora's Box directed by G.W Pabst (based on two plays by Frank Wedekind), but also Crepax's wife, Luisa Mandelli.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax's stories were based on imagination and vision. In those years, artists contaminated one another's works, and there was even a curious connection between Crepax's Ciao Valentina and Antonioni's Blow-Up.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Which came first? Blow-Up or Ciao Valentina? Which work stole from the other? In any case, there are some striking similarities.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We've come to the end of this journey to find Valentina. Philip Rembrandt continues to wait, and Valentina never forgets him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Detective Lojacono is transferred to a police station that is considered to be the worst of the worst. Judging from his first encounter there, it seems he has his work cut out for him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Detective Lojacono meets his team and learns why they talk about the "bastards." He also learns what the future holds for the police station.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Special agent Aragona read the files on all his colleagues and relates his findings to Lojacono. And we find out what Lojacono did, too. We also discover where he has his meals.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At the police station, Lojacono takes a phone call about a homicide. The team has been instructed expressly not to take on anything other than ordinary business. This is decidedly not ordinary business, but Lojacono is no ordinary policeman, apparently.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono has a careful look at the corpse and the surrounding area and draws some conclusions. His superior shows up and naturally wants to put Lojacono in his place, sending him right back to the station house, with the district attorney looking on.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Palma is quite angry with Lojacono for disobeying his express orders not to handle any homicides. Meanwhile, a call comes in from a peculiar old lady and two agents go to check out her story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Di Nardo and Romano decide to check out the apartment across the street, without much hope of success. That evening, there is news on TV about the murder and both Lojacono and the district attorney tune in from their respective apartments.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The DA has asked Lojacono to meet her for coffee. They joust a bit, but the DA has seniority and gets some answers from him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The "burglary gone wrong" is in the news and is not reflecting well on the city of Naples. The commissioner has summoned Palma and Lojacono to talk about this and makes a surprising decision.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono, Aragona, and DA Piras go back to the crime scene to have a better look at the victim's collection of glass balls. The DA and Lojacono exchange ideas about the murder, but then he and Aragona have to go back to the station house.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Now that the case is in their hands, Lojacano and Aragona go back to the notary to ask more questions. They get some answers Di Vincenzo failed to obtain.
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