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Bookmark this pageThis Is the Garden (1999)
Director: Giovanni Davide Maderne
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From Time Out Film Guide
A deeply Catholic youth movie, this has a very straight cello student moving in with her boyfriend, a gifted pianist, forgoing mass, and ending up pregnant. Meanwhile her fella neglects his studies, takes a demeaning job and starts drinking heavily. That's just for starters: the wages of sin are abortion and a stolen grand piano - and I'll surely be damned straight to Hell for daring to venture this competently observed movie plays like a set text.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Giovanni Davide Maderne
Producer: Andrea Occhipinti
Cast: Carolina Freschi, Denis Fasolo, Alessandro Quattri, Emanuela Macchniz, Delia Boccardo, Tiziana Bergamaschi, Ashley Cancian full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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