Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet." A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi....

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, take another trip down the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week! Anna Molinari’s Blumarine runway is in full bloom with floral motifs, elaborate details, and a romantic spirit. Ennio Capasa looks to the Stonehenge music festival to inspire his refined rock ‘n’ roll runway at CoSTUME National. The Ports 1961 woman is a modern goddess. Plus, Giorgio Armani channels the grandeur and emotion of Paolo Sorrentino’s...

Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian...

A forgotten classic, Crime of love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we touchdown in Milan for the third leg of our multi-city fashion tour! The 70s get sophisticated and ultra-luxe on Frida Giannini’s Gucci runway! Designer Antonio Marras takes eccentric artist Carol Rama as his spring muse. Take a first look at Philipp Plein’s otherworldly “Abyss Apocalypse” Spring 2015 runway. Plus, Roberto Cavalli celebrates freedom and love with his vibrant and youthful Just Cavalli...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we feature marvelous runway moments from Milan Fashion Week! Donatella Versace sends a mesmerizing mix down the runway of bandage strapped dresses adorned with silver body chains, rock band t-shirts and slinky metallic mesh draped eveningwear for her glamorous woman. At Gucci, Frida Giannini gives sportswear the luxe effect for Spring 2014, shown in sexy mesh fabrications and diaphanous techno fabrics in...

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven beauties), Love and anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini (The seduction of Mimi) won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè (Mariangela Melato), a prostitute...

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their...

Twenty, beautiful, sexy and liberated, and fed up with their provincial lives, Lia and Tina decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love ... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang which all culminates with a brutal and unexpected violent end. Sex and politics caused the censoring of...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we travel to the fashion landmark of ultimate luxuries- Milan! For his Fendi collection, Karl Lagerfeld interprets the concept of a digital world seen through the eyes of a storied fashion house. At Bottega Veneta, Tomas Maier gains inspiration from the traditional styles of the Impressionist era for his collection. Plus, political artists and the resilient strength of women inspire Miuccia Prada for her...