Word: italianity
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Game is written and directed by Liliana Cavani (best known for 1974’s classic Nazi-sadomasochism sex fantasy The Night Porter) and her touch shows. She gives Ripley’s relationship with his Italian girlfriend a tender eroticism that makes his evil all the more human and frightening: it’s clear that he thinks of himself as an intelligent sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that...
...poor, young and awkward Matt Damon, Class of 1992, murdering his way into social respectability and Gwyneth Paltrow’s heart. By Ripley’s Game, based on the fourth of Patricia Highsmith’s five Tom Ripley novels, Ripley is safely ensconced in an Italian villa bordering a small village, with a doting wife and an impressive chef...
...part Sopranos on crack, part Law and Order—Mystery Marinara mixes up an experience unlike any other. If you’re willing to spend fifty bucks for a surreal and hilarious experience, go for it—if you’re in the mood for Italian cuisine, however, good ol’ Sbarro’s wins...
...final chapter of the mystery unfolds with a rousing game of audience participation in Italian Famiglia Feud, including categories such as “the top five most important things to an Italian bachelorette” (number one: money; number two: big hair...
...theater. Instantly we are accosted by a corpulent madam in a red silk dress. “Mama Marinara,” as she calls herself, presses us into her vast bosom before entreating us—or rather screaming at us like an over-the-top Italian matriarch—to follow her son “Riga” to table number two. A man dressed in a white smoking jacket introduces himself as “Don Carbonara” and explains the game to us and the other six guests seated around our table. The room...