Italian Studies

Full analysis at Spotamovie.com - Intro - Italian Studies is a 2022 movie. Imagine to find yourself in Manhattan but without your memories. A journey into the unknown is starting. - The Story - While visiting New York City from her native London, writer Alina Reynolds (Academy Award nominee Vanessa Kirby) inexplicably loses her memory and suddenly becomes unmoored and adrift on the streets of Manhattan with no sense of time or place , or even her own name. As Alinas consciousness swings between imagined conversations, fragments of her own short stories and the bustling city around her, she finds an anchor in charismatic teenager Simon. Drawn to the lost woman, Simon soon introduces Alina to his free spirited group of friends, an...

I would say that Italian Studies perpetuates the stereotype that weed-smokers are dumb (I wont say it, though, because I dont think its a stereotype at all). There is a character in this movie who has a hiding place for my weed, because my mom searches my room.

The hiding place is a book in a public library. Really. Its like Poes Purloined Letter if Poe was a complete idiot. This is so stupid Cheech and Chong would scratch their heads in disbelief. The movie actually seems to believe that this is indeed a pretty good spot to stash your weed, so I guess writer/director Adam Leon must have been pretty high himself when he thought of it.

The film proper deals with Alina Reynolds (Vanessa Kirby), a writer who spontaneously loses her memor...