Talk to Me About Love / Blood of the Losers

TALK TO ME ABOUT LOVE (PARLAMI D’AMORE), 2008, Cattleya, 115 min. Aitana Sanchez-Gijon stars as Nicole, an unhappy housewife. Silvio Muccino (who also directs) is Sasha, half Nicole’s age, whose drug-addicted mother died in the rehabilitation clinic where he grew up. The pair meet when their cars crash one evening, and this leads to an intimate friendship. Soon Nicole is giving Sasha lessons in love to help him win a beautiful girl Sasha has known since he was a boy. But things take an unexpected turn.

BLOOD OF THE LOSERS (IL SANGUE DEI VINTI), 2007, Media One, 100 min. Dir. Michele Soavi (CEMETERY MAN). An older policeman (Michele Placido) is still trying to come to terms with a family tragedy: His brother (Alessandro Preziosi) fought on the side of the partisans, while his sister fought with the fascists and is interred in disgrace in a common grave.