by Carlotta Magnanini

Sometimes it just takes a couple of hours—the duration of a movie—to understand how mysterious mechanisms work, in this case, we mean Italian. In the history of Italian cinema, both past and present (not much has changed anyway), there are a few movies that can offer us a real identikit to give us more insight into them.

Here we've chosen six movies, some of which are Italian classics. An Italian-style road movie, but instead of Thelma and Louise fleeing from Arkansas we find two men (played by Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Marie Trintignant) on the Via Aurelia heading to Tuscany.

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