TORONTO – Italian and Neapolitan Author Luciano De Crescenzo once said that his concept of Naples is “not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not”. But other than trying to untie the Gordian knot or shooting an arrow through the handles of twelve axes, I can think of no task more hopeless than trying to define the Neapolitan spirit. This of course didn’t stop Italian Director Paolo Sorrentino from giving it a shot with his latest film Parthenope – which he says is a film about “missed youth”.
TORONTO – Now that the number crunching has ended, the significance of Trump’s victory is beginning to take hold. Even CNN Newsnetwork and its on-air reporters and phalanx of “experts” seem to be resigned to the new realities, and these resemble the “self-fulfilling prophesies” spread by the fear-mongering cadre of CNN’s vast reservoir of self-defined progressive advocates for ‘anyone but Trump’ movement, prior to the election.
TORONTO – While chaos reigned in Montreal (clashes with the police, smashed windows and cars set on fire), the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was dancing and singing at Taylor Swift’s concert in Toronto, exchanging “friendship bracelets” with the young fans of the American artist. Images, those spread on the numerous videos published on social networks, strongly contrasting: on the one hand, a night of terror for the Canadians of Montreal; on the other, “a night like a teenager rather than a prime minister”, as many have written on social networks, for the head of the Canadian government. →
