Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that she has ...

Michela Murgia was a voice for minorities and a lightning rod for political debate. She also garnered respect even from a prime minister whose policies she opposed. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

ROME – Italy is a county that reveres artists and intellectuals, in part because since antiquity, culture has been its leading export. Thus the recent death of a 51-year-old novelist and essayist ...

The 35th edition of the Ethnicity and Teatralità festival, organized by the Compagnia Teatro Sassari, concludes. On Saturday at 8:30 pm, the Astra Theater in Sassari hosts "Ribelle. Stories of a ...

When I read Michela Murgia’s book, I thought she’d be the perfect person to direct the film. She knows how to explore love in its most varied forms, and with great intensity. And this felt like a ...

But when Italian producer Riccardo Tozzi insisted and Coixet read the collection of stories, she was persuaded to make the film because the story showed how “even in goodbye there is grace, and even ...