As we watched french movies last time, we obviously decided to watch Italian movies. Therefore, for our 7th meeting, we met again at school.
First, we watched some extract of a comedy named “Quo vado!” which actually doesn’t mean anything in Italian, but in some dialect should mean:” here I go!”.
It talks about this guy, named Checco Zalone who, since childhood, wanted to became a guy with a fixed long-term job. Then, he got the job, but, after some years with the global crisis, he is asked from some governmental agency to take some buyout and leave his position. However, he doesn’t want to do it, so the boss of this agency start to send him to work all around Italy to force him to leave the job. Still he doesn’t and so She send him to Norway, where he fell in love with a workmate, and started to like to live up there. After in the movie, he starts to want to look like a Norwegian and dislike Italy.
Furthermore, we watched an extract of the twin movie of the French: Camping, called ” Una moglie bellissima”. It was really funny because it was exactly the same kind of story of the French one, and also, same kind of music, and actors acting. 
Alessandro told us about the most famous Italian movie abroad : “La dolce Vita”, which is really old. I have ever heard about it, but I have never watched it, but I should 😉
As for the history of cinema/movie, Coloured TV came just from 1977 because, basically the Italian TV company RAI just wanted to save money and do not invest in the tv colour even if they could have done it in 1961. The history of the Italian cinema started a few months after the Lumière brothers had presented in public their original device, the Cinematograph, in 1895 in Paris: it is them who introduce it in Italy during year 1896.
Then, we afford famous actors/actress in Italy. I was confused because, actually, I didn’t know lots of Italian actors. The only one I know is the famous Monica Belluci (She played in “Asterix & Obelix mission cléopâtre”, famous french movie).
Others famous actors :
-  Roberto Benigni, the one who wrote and act in: “La vita è bella”
- Jhon Turturro : acts in “transformers
- Robert De Niro : he’s American but has Italian parents.
- Sophia Loren : very famous from the 50’s to the 90’s
I am glad to have discover new movies, and I think about watching them as soon as possible. Italian cinema is really developped, and we can observe that it exists several French-Italian coproductions , that is the reason why the Italian cinema often crosses the way of the French cinema.
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