Adriano Amidei Migliano

Rossellini's three-part series is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Manuel de Sica, this grand yet intimate work is a storybook conjuring of a way of life and thought. (criterion.com)

A film with four separate sketches. In the first , a private investigator tasked to oversee for an entire night a woman was suspected of treason; in the second, La Squadra di Calcio ("The Football Team"), a female soccer team's best player goes down with a serious injury. The coach hires a male football star to pose as a woman to replace her.... (tg-films.info)

Julia and Anna, are two orphan sisters of both parents. Nymphomaniac and calculator, Giulia is allowed to important people of the city to promote the launch of a young architect her lover, Alessandro. Anna, who is just out of college, suffer violence of those same people. Cynically then his sister tries to exploit the situation to induce them with blackmail, to facilitate some large real estate speculation of Alessandro.