Patrizia La Fonte

Maria Montessori (2023)

Set in 1900, Lili d'Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her "idiot" daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child. ...

Senza età (2023)

Pietro decides to grant the wish of an elderly lady he calls Grandma and takes her out of the nursing home where she lives to take her to the seaside. It is the beginning of a road trip and an unexpected friendship. From Italy to Spain, passing through Fra ...

I cacciatori del cielo (2023)

Quasi orfano (2022)

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins. ...

Carla (2021)

The extraordinary life of Carla Fracci, the greatest Italian ballerina of all time, told from her first steps at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan to the stages of the most prestigious international theaters, passing through the controversial ch ...

S.O.S. Befana (2011)

Beniamina, the Befana, has to confront an evil "anti-Befana", who's sowing discord to the fairytale world and stealing children's dreams. ...

Red Like the Sky (2006)

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound. ...

Sacred Heart (2005)

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends. ...

Il ronzio delle mosche (2003)

La guerra è finita (2002)

Dark Illness (1990)

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses. ...

Rorret (1988)

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a we ...

I picari (1987)

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century. ...

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984)

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdn ...

La donna del mare (1984)

Married to a doctor and mother of two daughters, a woman continually rethinks her relationship with a sailor. ...

Un marziano a Roma (1983)

Liebeskonzil (1982)

Oskar Panizza's The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned fo ...