A film portrait by Hiroshi Inagaki which reveals the story of Matsugoro, an almost legendary figure for the Japanese lower classes, a rebel who embodies the eternal features of the national character and the respect for the moral code of the time
Jean-Pierre Melville's second-to-last film is an exciting noir about the melancholy contemplation of the randomness, uselessness and solitude inherent in the human condition
«The film is first and foremost a very interesting essay on mafia anthropology, which analyses the habits, behaviour, mentality and material life of a special ethnicity, the Italian-American criminality in Manhattan» (Alberto Farassino)
«Cronaca di un amore is the intimate account of a love story in two phases, a probe deep into the soul of these two characters» (Michelangelo Antonioni).
The first feature-length film, desperate and sad, by the filmmaker Souleymane Cissé is set in a Mali in the grips of rapid urbanisation and with a growing gap between the upper middle class of the villas