On this breathtaking island, the economy revolves around harvesting the bounty of the Mediterranean. Like other women in the village, the gorgeous Grazia (Valeria Golino) works in the local ...

In the film “Respiro” in the Community Theatre International Film Series, a housewife living on a small Italian island rebels against the repressive society that surrounds her. Her actions are ...

Drama. Starring Valeria Golino and Francesco Casisa. Directed by Emanuele Crialese. (PG-13. 90 minutes. In Italian and Sicilian with English subtitles. At Bay Area theaters.) "Respiro" is partly of ...

After struggling to make his first feature, director Emanuele Crialese needed a break and headed off to Lampedusa, a small island off Sicily. There he fell in love with the land and the people that ...

…if it weren't for Grazia, mother of a teenage girl and two rebellious sons. The community is constantly and irritably nettled by the young woman's sensual openness and mercurial moods. Most people ...

Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino is a veteran pretty face of many European films of the past 20 years who had one brief moment of glory in '80s Hollywood playing the girlfriends of Pee-wee Herman ...

All Grazia wants from her Italian fishing village is to cut her some slack. A married mother of three living on an island near Sicily, Grazia (Valeria Golino) is viewed by her community as ...

“Respiro,” by Italian director Emanuele Crialese, is set in a fishing community of islands off the coast of Sicily where the daily routine has remained much the same over generations–until the erratic ...

anyone looking for a big, splashy, trashy movie should look elsewhere. This movie is tightly directed with thoughtfully austere photography that is both gritty and lush. The final last scene is ...

It's been 55 years since Luchino Visconti captured the essence of a close-knit Sicilian fishing community in the neo-realist classic, 'La Terra Trema'. If Crialese's sensitive drama is anything to go ...