Poor Things

Big movements of change have often started with tiny events or personal decisions that ended up affecting the history of our world.

From medieval cottages and Victorian terraces to high-rise flats, Dan Cruickshank looks at the place we are all familiar with but never question - our home.

Dziga Vertov, whose renegade approach to cinema is best remembered in the legendary Man with the Movie Camera and his series of Kino-Pravda newsreels, demonstrates his mastery of montage in this 1924 feature previously unseen in the United States.

This four part series looks at the findings from the ultimate nature-nurture test. The mountain of research generated by the Dunedin Longitudinal Study reveals what really makes us who we are, what affect childhood has on as adults, why some of us will go off the rails while others will prosper and be successful.This series follows the fascinating study and information it has provided in almost every field of medical and social development including respiratory and cardiovascular health, addictions, obesity, sexual health, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics and criminology and most interestingly the effects of nature and nurture on health and behaviour.

I Tucci sono una famiglia povera di un piccolo paese del Lazio. Padre, madre, una figlia vanitosa e un figlio genio, costretto a fingersi idiota per stare al passo con la famiglia. Con loro vivono anche il cognato, botanico ma nullafacente, e la nonna, patita di serie TV.

Il film racconta la vita quotidiana di una famiglia di una baraccopoli romana degli anni ’60, una tribù di circa venti persone tra genitori, figli, consorti, amanti, nipoti e nonna. A capo di tutti c’è il vecchio Giacinto Mazzatella (Nino Manfredi): di origine pugliese (di cui conserva il forte dialetto), guercio, dispotico e fedifrago, tratta familiari e vicini al pari delle bestie. Questi possiede un milione di lire, risarcimento dell’assicurazione per aver perso un occhio, ed è ossessionato dal fatto che i parenti glielo possano rubare…