Kicking off our coverage of the 25th anniversary of the perennially popular Italian classic, Laura Barnett catches up with Salvatore Cascio, who played the saucer-eyed Totò as a child
A vacant central performance and equally empty directorial treatment cast no light on the difficult subject of teenage prostitution, writes Mark Kermode
Adaptations of novels have regularly provided audiences with the classier end of the film spectrum. Here, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best
Originally published in the Guardian on 01 November 1993: Italy leads the world of cinema in mourning a man whose films were a blend of reality, wit, fantasy and brazen self-indulgence
Abdellatif Kechiche won a Palme d'Or for his latest film, Blue Is the Warmest Colour. But the film's young stars have said they'll never work with him again. He talks to Jonathan Romney