Italian Cinema Podcast Episodes

The Bad Dads turn to Netflix for The Life Ahead, the 2020 Italian drama directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Sophia Loren as Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor and former sex worker who now cares for the children of other sex workers in Bari.The conversation begins in properly jaded Monday fashion — recorded after England’s glorious defeat of Mexico at the Azteca, naturally — before moving through recent watches including The Armstrong Lie, Marco Pierre White YouTube rabbit holes, the new Cape Fear, Shot Caller, The Boys, and a brisk top-five round on dynamite and explosions.When the dads get to the film, Sidey sets up Madame Rosa’s world: she is elderly, Jewish, traumatised, proud, and scraping by, pawning her candlesticks to cover the rent. Into her life crashes Momo, a young Senegalese orphan living with Dr Cohen, who steals Rosa’s bag in the market and is then forced to apologise. The apology goes badly, but Dr Cohen persuades Rosa — via an increasingly persuasive cash of…