Word: alessio
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...speaks like a priest." Ask an Italian what they think of their current leader, and chances are they'll chuckle - but most go on to say they voted for him. For many of his countrymen, Berlusconi's appetites are central to his appeal: "He is a real Italian," shrugs Alessio de Mitri, a youth coordinator for Berlusconi's party, now called Il Popolo della Libertà (PDL). "He likes to eat. He likes parties. He's going through a divorce, like a lot of people. He's going through company problems. He's really normal...
...Born (from the fatalistic saying, "Once you're born you can't hide") is the story of how the "immigrant problem" touches a well-bred boy from the Northern city of Brescia. Sandro (the exceptional first-time actor Matteo Gadola) is the only child of a loving couple (Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon) who run a factory that employs mostly immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One night, on a yacht excursion with his dad and uncle, Sandro falls overboard and, when his absence isn't noticed, prepares to die. He calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama!" as a prayer...
...boys, the patient and kindly Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) becomes a psychiatrist. His possibly more gifted, but much more shadowed brother, Matteo (Alessio Boni), becomes a policeman notable for brutality, hasty judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great...
...CANOE/KAYAK (Sprint) Mylanie Barre, Lac-Beauport, Que. Caroline Brunet, Lac-Beauport, Que. Tamas Buday Jr., Mississauga, Ont. Attila Buday, Mississauga, Ont. Ryan Cuthbert, Carleton Place, Ont. Jillian D'Alessio, Middle Sackville, N.S. Richard Dalton, Halifax Richard Dober Jr., Trois-Rivi?res, Que. Karen Furneaux, Waverley, N.S. Steve Giles, Lake Echo, N.S. Kamini Jain, Calgary Steven Jorens, Aurora, Ont. Carrie Lightbound, Mississauga, Ont. Mike Scarola, Waverley, N.S. Adam van Koeverden, Oakville, Ont. Andrew Willows, Gananoque...