Word: mezzogiorno
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...this fictional recreation of her life, Ida, played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, is shoved into the shadows of secluded homes and mental hospitals as everyone around her insists that she forget the past and the father of her child. Mezzogiorno delivers a stunning performance, masterfully portraying the desperation of a scorned lover. Her obsession with her imagined marriage to Mussolini (Filippo Timi)—a problem first and foremost because he was already married with children before his affair with Ida—is second only to her resolve that she hasn’t imagined anything and is justified...
...there's another bad omen. Calabria and the south are conspicuously absent from the national agenda. Only in passing does the region feature in campaign speeches, and there are few premium spots for southerners on the political parties' parliamentary-candidate lists. True commitment to solving the problems of the "Mezzogiorno" - as Italy's eight southernmost regions are known - is clearly not considered a vote getter. Yet for reasons that transcend geography, turning around the south ought to be Italy's most pressing national priority. Youth unemployment in the Mezzogiorno is a staggering 36%; and between 1991 and 2005, according...
...million southerners among Italy's population of 59 million need more support. That's all beside the point, says Domenico Cersosimo, an economics professor at the University of Calabria. "We shouldn't see this as a country divided in two," he says. "The maladies of the Mezzogiorno are the maladies of Italy. It's just a question of degree: what is gray in Italy is black in the south." Indeed, entrenched nationwide ills like tax evasion, cumbersome bureaucracy and a self-serving political class are of a piece with the south's blight - crime and blatant corruption. Neither the public...
That's not entirely an accident, suggests economics professor Cersosimo. He says the Mezzogiorno has discerned "a tacit convenience to underdevelopment." Elected officials campaign on their ability to keep public resources flowing in - Calabria alone gets $95 million a year to fund the socially useful jobs program - and claim victory when their area continues to be classified as backward. That label qualifies the Mezzogiorno for $4.2 billion in European Union aid, as well as another $12.8 billion from Rome's coffers. "Politicians have an interest in maintaining the status quo," he says. "There is no clear road map for bringing...
...film.“Love in the Time of Cholera” begins in 1880 with fervent first-sight love. The young Florentino Ariza, played by Javier Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), comes across the beautiful Fermina Daza, played by popular Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Although no words are exchanged, they fall desperately in love. Though physical consummation is prevented by their differing social statuses and Fermina’s father, they incessantly send each other love letters and telegraphs, in which Florentino vows his eternal love. Distance, Fermina’s marriage to another...