The saga of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni splitting from her partner, Mediaset TV personality Andrea Giambruno, after leaked outtakes revealed the anchorman making sexist remarks, is gripping the country amid speculation of political conspiracy behind the incident.
Meloni, who became Italy’s first female prime minister a year ago when her right-wing Brothers of Italy party scored big in the country’s national elections, officially dumped Giambruno — her partner for a decade and the father of their young daughter (pictured above with Pope Francis) — last Friday via social media.
In Facebook and X posts, Meloni alerted the country that she and her partner had been split up “for some time” after Mediaset’s primetime satirical show “Striscia La Notizia” (“The News Spreads”) aired hot mic and video clip footage of Giambruno grabbing his crotch and apparently hitting on his co-anchor and another unidentified woman.
“Can I touch my package...
Meloni, who became Italy’s first female prime minister a year ago when her right-wing Brothers of Italy party scored big in the country’s national elections, officially dumped Giambruno — her partner for a decade and the father of their young daughter (pictured above with Pope Francis) — last Friday via social media.
In Facebook and X posts, Meloni alerted the country that she and her partner had been split up “for some time” after Mediaset’s primetime satirical show “Striscia La Notizia” (“The News Spreads”) aired hot mic and video clip footage of Giambruno grabbing his crotch and apparently hitting on his co-anchor and another unidentified woman.
“Can I touch my package...
- 10/26/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Giorgia Meloni, the first female prime minister of Italy, announced she has split from her longtime partner, television presenter Andrea Giambruno, after his lewd and sexist comments to his female colleagues were caught on camera and broadcast.
Meloni, a right-wing populist, made the announcement just hours after the broadcast of the video, in which her boyfriend propositioned female colleagues for a threesome and admitted to an affair on the set of his show, Diary del Giorno (Daily Agenda).
In one clip, he makes suggestive remarks to a female journalist as he paces the set of his TV show and repeatedly touches his crotch.
He asks her, “Can I touch my b— while I talk to you?”
In another conversation with a female colleague, Giambruno said, “How are you, darling? Do you know that [name redacted] and I are having an affair? All of Mediaset knows it, and now you do, too. But...
Meloni, a right-wing populist, made the announcement just hours after the broadcast of the video, in which her boyfriend propositioned female colleagues for a threesome and admitted to an affair on the set of his show, Diary del Giorno (Daily Agenda).
In one clip, he makes suggestive remarks to a female journalist as he paces the set of his TV show and repeatedly touches his crotch.
He asks her, “Can I touch my b— while I talk to you?”
In another conversation with a female colleague, Giambruno said, “How are you, darling? Do you know that [name redacted] and I are having an affair? All of Mediaset knows it, and now you do, too. But...
- 10/21/2023
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Like Bicycle Thieves’ Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) almost seventy years before him, Thierry Taugourdeau (Lindon) the protagonist of The Measure of a Man, is simply trying to earn an honest living to support his family. He has been unemployed for well over a year and must make ends meet with a small unemployment check. He spends most of his days trying to find a job, and at night he puts on his best face to appease the fears of his wife (Karine de Mirbeck) and his teenage son (Matthieu Schaller) who has a disability that will require special education in the near future. While Thierry’s overall situation is absolutely lamentable, there is no “time bomb” outlook in the meditative film, rather than push this everyman into “Michael Douglas in any 90s thriller” mode, director Stephane Brize invites us to observe and perhaps develop empathy.
Thierry is both unique and...
Thierry is both unique and...
- 4/16/2016
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Vittorio De Sica is widely regarded as a master in the realm of world cinema. As one of the Italian neorealism forerunners (in company with Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti), De Sica concentrated on films that told stories about real people on real locations. He was fantastic at casting ordinary citizens for his lead roles --- particularly for his film Bicycle Thieves, which was recently been released via the Criterion Collection. The plot is simple: Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), a father in depressed, post-wwii Rome finally gets a job, which is everything, but he needs his bicyle. In order to provide for his family, he must get his bicycle back from the pawn broker, and to do that, his wife Maria (Lianella Carell) must pawn...
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- 4/4/2016
- Screen Anarchy
It had been so long since I last saw Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves—the last time being long before I started to become involved with movie posters—that I had forgotten that Antonio Ricci’s job at the start of the film, the job he so desperately needs a bicycle for, is pasting up movie posters.Researching De Sica posters to coincide with the current month-long restrospective at New York’s Film Forum I discovered that De Sica’s most famous film centers—as does the Shawshank Redemption, coincidentally—on a poster of Rita Hayworth. I had hoped that it would be a poster by Anselmo Ballester, who painted Hayworth gloriously many times, but the signature on the top right of the poster is clearly that of one T. Corbella. Tito Corbella (1885-1966) was an artist known for his sensuous portraits of Italian divas since the 1910s. Dave Kehr...
- 9/19/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
'Father of the Bride': Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams. Top Five Father's Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father's Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various sizes, shapes, and inclinations. In terms of quality, these range from the amusing – e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen; the Oscar-nominated The Grandfather – to the nauseating – e.g., the 1950 version of Father of the Bride; its atrocious sequel, Father's Little Dividend. Although I'm unable to come up with the absolute Top Five Father's Day Movies – or rather, just plain Father Movies – ever made, below are the first five (actually six, including a remake) "quality" patriarch-centered films that come to mind. Now, the fathers portrayed in these films aren't all heroic, loving, and/or saintly paternal figures. Several are...
- 6/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Father’s Day is this Sunday, so I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some fathers in movie history that stand out above the rest. I’m not a father, but as a son I can tell you that a man’s relationship with his father is one of the most important relationships in his life. It might be that reason alone that the bond between father and son is put on the big screen so often, it’s relatable and universal.
So grab a cold one with your dad this weekend, maybe even pull out one of these movies and make a memorable moment you will never forget. Use the comments below to talk about your favorite movie dads, enjoy!
Here is some relevant music to accompany you while you read.
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Don Vito Corleone – The Godfather (1972)
“A man...
So grab a cold one with your dad this weekend, maybe even pull out one of these movies and make a memorable moment you will never forget. Use the comments below to talk about your favorite movie dads, enjoy!
Here is some relevant music to accompany you while you read.
Download audio file (Cat’s In The Cradle.mp3)
Don Vito Corleone – The Godfather (1972)
“A man...
- 6/15/2012
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
It's Father's Day this Sunday, and in celebration Indiewire has decided to offer a few picks for the best cinematic dads. Clearly there's many notable examples missing from the list, but here's the movie fathers that six of our staffers felt most warranted inclusion. Feel free to use the comments section to offer up your favorites. Antonio Ricci, "The Bicycle Thief" Vittorio De Sica's heartbreaking neorealist work won Sight & Sound's top films poll just two years after its release for one very prominent reason: It's the best movie about paternal instincts ever made. The continuing efforts of Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), struggling with unemployment in post-wwii Italy, to find the stolen bicycle that could theoretically help him find a new job, derives much of its power from the relationship between Antonio and his young boy (Enzo Staiola). As Antonio's efforts to recover the bicycle grow increasingly desperate, culminating...
- 6/15/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez, Devin Lee Fuller, Peter Knegt, Eric Kohn, Sophia Savage and Nigel M. Smith
- Indiewire
Currently leaving theatres is A Better Life, the latest movie from director Chris Weitz, the man who brought us American Pie and Twilight: New Moon and tells the tale of a father who struggles to do what’s right by his son and search for a stolen truck, is a loose remake of the classic 1948 Italian movie ‘The Bicycle Thieves’. The Bicycle Thieves (or The Bicycle Thief as it is known in the Us), for those who are not too familiar, was directed by Victorio De Sica and is often regarded as one the best foreign language films ever made and perhaps the greatest film to come out of the Italian Neo-Realism movement. The film follows Antonio Ricci (played by Lamberto Maggiorani) who finally gets a job delivering cinema posters only to have it threatened when a thief steals his bicycle. Together with his young son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), they...
- 8/8/2011
- by Tom Ryan
- Obsessed with Film
John Hooper selects 10 of his favourite Rome-based films from Hepburn in Roman Holiday to Fellini's La Dolce Vita
• As featured in our Rome city guide
Roman Holiday, William Wyler, 1953
Insulated from the commotion of Roman life, Via Margutta is a cobbled street near the Spanish Steps, draped in ivy and lined nowadays with art galleries, restaurants and boutiques. It was home to Federico Fellini and Truman Capote. And at number 51, Crown Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) began her fleeting love affair with an American foreign correspondent, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) in the enchanting, if improbable, comedy that shot Hepburn to fame and forever welded Vespas to Rome in the popular imagination. "You have my permission to withdraw..." slurs Hepburn, unaware she has previously been sedated, as she lets her skirt slip to the floor. "Why, thank you very much," replies the gentlemanly Peck and leaves her to sleep alone. It...
• As featured in our Rome city guide
Roman Holiday, William Wyler, 1953
Insulated from the commotion of Roman life, Via Margutta is a cobbled street near the Spanish Steps, draped in ivy and lined nowadays with art galleries, restaurants and boutiques. It was home to Federico Fellini and Truman Capote. And at number 51, Crown Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) began her fleeting love affair with an American foreign correspondent, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) in the enchanting, if improbable, comedy that shot Hepburn to fame and forever welded Vespas to Rome in the popular imagination. "You have my permission to withdraw..." slurs Hepburn, unaware she has previously been sedated, as she lets her skirt slip to the floor. "Why, thank you very much," replies the gentlemanly Peck and leaves her to sleep alone. It...
- 7/13/2011
- by John Hooper
- The Guardian - Film News
“Great movie, huh? So refreshing to see something like this after all these… cop movies and, you know, things we do. Maybe we’ll do a remake of this!”
So says Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), the amoral producer in Robert Altman’s The Player. So unassailable is the popular opinion surrounding Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves that Altman uses the film as shorthand for the kind of untouchable classic that Hollywood could so easily ruin.
Closely associated with Italian neorealism, even defining the ‘movement’ for some, Bicycle Thieves tells a relatively simple story of a working class man, Antonio Ricci (Lamerto Maggiorani). Antonio’s bike is stolen and, unable to work without it, he desperately searches the streets of Rome, trying to find this simple item that represents a lifeline for him. Accompanied by his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), Antonio’s search becomes an seemingly unending quest to which there is no happy resolution.
So says Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), the amoral producer in Robert Altman’s The Player. So unassailable is the popular opinion surrounding Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves that Altman uses the film as shorthand for the kind of untouchable classic that Hollywood could so easily ruin.
Closely associated with Italian neorealism, even defining the ‘movement’ for some, Bicycle Thieves tells a relatively simple story of a working class man, Antonio Ricci (Lamerto Maggiorani). Antonio’s bike is stolen and, unable to work without it, he desperately searches the streets of Rome, trying to find this simple item that represents a lifeline for him. Accompanied by his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), Antonio’s search becomes an seemingly unending quest to which there is no happy resolution.
- 4/19/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tron/Tron: Legacy
Blu-ray, Walt Disney
The release of the belated sequel to Tron was greeted as open season to unfairly ridicule the original.
It flopped at the box office, but remember, 1982 was the year of Et; everything not Et flopped that year, leaving Tron to keep company with Blade Runner, The Thing and Conan, and there's no shame in that. Tron was staggeringly ahead of its time – its makers had no idea if any of it was even possible to achieve – proving Disney to be a far more innovative and progressive studio than it gets credit for. With stunning Syd Mead and Moebius design and the mix of early CGI (often little more than lines of perspective and colour) and hand-augmented live action, it still looks unique. At least star Jeff Bridges recognised its worth, which is why his first film after his Oscar-winning turn in Crazy Heart was...
Blu-ray, Walt Disney
The release of the belated sequel to Tron was greeted as open season to unfairly ridicule the original.
It flopped at the box office, but remember, 1982 was the year of Et; everything not Et flopped that year, leaving Tron to keep company with Blade Runner, The Thing and Conan, and there's no shame in that. Tron was staggeringly ahead of its time – its makers had no idea if any of it was even possible to achieve – proving Disney to be a far more innovative and progressive studio than it gets credit for. With stunning Syd Mead and Moebius design and the mix of early CGI (often little more than lines of perspective and colour) and hand-augmented live action, it still looks unique. At least star Jeff Bridges recognised its worth, which is why his first film after his Oscar-winning turn in Crazy Heart was...
- 4/15/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
For Father’s Day, a few of my favorite father figures in film: Henry Jones Sr., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness Michael Sullivan, The Road To Perdition Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird Antonio Ricci, The Bicycle Thief Worst Movie Dads Ever? Major infernal paternal influences: Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back Daniel Plainview, There Will Be [...]...
- 6/21/2009
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
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