Rome

You know when you feel the desire that everything stops for a moment, when you need to catch the breath? Anyone living in a big city needs a corner of peace, to get away from the hustle, and gather thoughts....

Living in Rome, I am intrigued by the resilience of the Italian people and by the influences they accumulated throughout history. One monday morning, at the Quadraro, I found the influential resilience in a mural (Leggi in Italiano)

An almost cruel representation of a series of characters one more egotistical, spoiled, arrogant, and vulgar than the other. The film is an intense sensorial experience that involves touch, sight and hearing. The view of two American professors on Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty which just...

As I currently absorb the rays of sun, empirical Rome has so graciously given me today, most of my former fellow inhabitants from Mulberry to 85th and Madison, are shivering on yet another unforgiving, icy day of winter. I feel a slight...

Mentre assorbo i raggi di sole che Roma oggi mi ha gentilmente donato, la maggior parte dei miei ex concittadini, da Mulberry a 85th street e Madison, batte i denti in un altro spietato, gelido giorno d'inverno.  Mi sento mordere da un leggero senso di colpa. Come se...