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- DirectorStefano SollimaStarsPierfrancesco FavinoElio GermanoClaudio AmendolaA gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsMonica BellucciAlessio BoniLuca ZingarettiThe story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
- DirectorSergio CastellittoStarsPenélope CruzSergio CastellittoClaudia GeriniA destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsFanny ArdantMichele PlacidoGiovanna GiulianiCarlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. He lives with a young lover, while Silvia lives in their original flat. Their 'regular' menage changes when also Silvia starts meeting other men, and in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. Carlo becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her wife's affairs and jealousy makes him blind.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsElio GermanoAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyValerio BinascoFausto and Nadine meet for the first time in a hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful French girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate.
- DirectorMarco Simon PuccioniStarsMaria de MedeirosAntonia LiskovaMounir OuadiThe story's protagonists are three people: Anna, a wealthy middle-class 35-year old woman who owns, together with her mother and her brother, a factory in the northeast of Italy; she has a love affair with 25-year-old Mara, who works in the factory; then there's Anis, a young man from Maghreb who suddenly storms into their lives.
- DirectorMirca ViolaStarsAntonia LiskovaAlessia PiovanSveva AlvitiDesperate after losing her dream job in advertising, Alice starts a sexy webcam site with three friends. Successful from day one, the company expands so quickly that soon the women struggle to balance their relationships with family, friends, clients and one-another. What began as a quick and sexy way to earn some extra cash spirals out of control as they enter a world of dangerous excess, violent threats from unhinged clients and bitter rivalries with one another.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsJeremy IronsOlga KurylenkoSimon JohnsFocused on the relationship between an astronomer and his lover, who spend their years apart.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsAnna GalienaGabriel GarkoFranco BranciaroliTrapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsFabrizio RongioneChristelle ProtLudovico SuccioAt the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
- DirectorRodrigo GarcíaStarsKathy BakerAmy BrennemanGlenn CloseCaptives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
- DirectorHenrique GoldmanStarsIngrid de SouzaCesare BocciLulu PecorariFernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, but in Milan is instead transformed into Princesa, a mysterious figure of allure. When she meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her. It all seems too good to be true...and it is.
- DirectorGiorgio DirittiStarsJasmine TrincaAnne AlvaroSonia GessnerPainful family events lead Augusta to leave Italy. On a small boat, immersed in the Amazon Forest grandness, she travels among the Indian villages. From the favela to the isolation in the Forest, Augusta goes in search of herself.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsLello ArenaPaola CortellesiCarolina Crescentini10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsRiccardo ScamarcioJasmine TrincaLuca ArgenteroItalian Revolution, 1968. Police officer Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among the students who are against the government and the Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsKim Rossi StuartJasmine TrincaPaola CortellesiA biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
- DirectorSalvatore MairaStarsValeria SolarinoMaurizio MicheliMarina RoccoIn the service quarters of a grand hotel, a young maid and a man meet in a situation which breaks all certainties and identities.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMatilde GioliValeria Bruni TedeschiThe destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsAdrien BrodyEmmanuelle SeignerElsa PatakyIn Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsStefano AccorsiVittoria PucciniPierfrancesco FavinoA look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsClaudio SantamariaIain GlenLaura ChiattiIn contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents, misunderstandings and traps culminating in an unusual Venice.
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsAdam DriverAlba RohrwacherRoberta MaxwellThe relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.
- DirectorAlessandro CaponeStarsIsabelle HuppertGreta ScacchiMélanie LaurentThe secrets and hidden pain of a woman recovering from a suicide attempt reveal themselves through a series of sessions with her psychiatrist.
- DirectorMarc TurtletaubStarsRobin WeigertAlicia SilverstoneSharon StoneGreek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsFabio VoloAmbra AngioliniAïssa MaïgaAn italian engineer and a beautiful black woman both married had an affair turning his life's into a hard forbidden romance.
- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsHarvey KeitelJane MarchJordi MollàLudovico is a precious stone merchant who trades between Europe and the Middle East. He is also an Islam convert, with Jihad as his highest religious duty, plotting a terrorist attack on an epic scale that will bring the West to its knees.
- DirectorTonino ZangardiStarsAdriano GianniniSara ForestierElsa MollienMantova, Italy. Martine is trapped in crossfire between bank robbers and police. While trying to escape, Martine (Elsa Mollien) is shot and dead by a bullet triggered by a policeman, Leonardo (Adriano Giannini). After the accident, Leonardo meets a beautiful woman walking in the rain, Sandrine (Sara Forestier) who brings drastic changes to Leonardo's life, and who harbors a dark secret.
- DirectorTonino ZangardiLuisa PorrinoStarsClaudia GeriniMarco BocciMarc DuretA married checkout girl is at work when her supermarket is held up by 2 armed robbers,the police have had the place under suvalaliance and quickly arrest the 2 robbers.A relationship evolves between the cop and the girl.when she tells her husband of the affair her situation spirals out of control and she and the officer make run for freedom and happiness.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsTim RothAlexandra Maria LaraBruno GanzA love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
- DirectorGianluca De SerioMassimiliano De SerioStarsRoberto HerlitzkaIgnazio OlivaOlimpia MelinteLuminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences.
- DirectorMirko PincelliStarsVincenzo AmatoFrancesca NeriNoel ClarkeElena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one another other.
- DirectorDavid GriecoStarsMassimo RanieriLibero De RienzoMatteo TarantoIn the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
- DirectorLeone PompucciStarsIda Di BenedettoCatrinel MarlonAlessia SantacroceMaria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsShane EdelmanBalthazar GettyMolly ParkerA successful computer engineer meets a stripper in a cafe. He offers her $10,000 and she offers three days and nights of no penetration in Vegas.
- DirectorGiorgio MolteniStarsFrancesca FaiellaRoberto FarnesiChiara GensiniHave you ever lost a common object, the one under your sight till a minute ago? A watch, glasses, the key of the car. Guido lost his 8 years old daughter.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeNinetto DavoliRiccardo ScamarcioA kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloDenis FasoloNello MasciaThe body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloAnna BonaiutoGiulio BosettiThe story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsValerio MastandreaPierfrancesco FavinoMichela CesconA chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
- DirectorVito VinciStarsElisa AlessandroGiovanni CapalboRoberto DavideSandra K. is a painter, isolating herself as she refuses to cope with her son's death. She meets a younger troubled man, Antonio, and falls in love with him. An intense relationship ensues only to be interrupted when reality sets in.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsJean-Hugues AngladeJuliet AubreyJenner Del VecchioAmsterdam, 1942: four-year-old Jonah and his parents are deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany where the child learns to cope with an incomprehensible world of war, brutality and persecution.
- DirectorGraham TheakstonStarsAndy GarciaFrances O'ConnorAngela BassettA road accident leaves seven-year-old Frankie Heywood gravely injured and deeply comatose, when she is hit by a bus, and her twelve-year-old brother Ben severely depressed and traumatised after he witnessed the event. Their parents, Jack and Alison, have to put aside their fights over their unstable marriage to focus on their damaged children. But as life looks as if it will never improve for the Heywoods, Jack and Alison hear of a controversial medical therapy that could cajole Frankie from her coma. The treatment involves communicating with the comatose patient to coax them back to consciousness and Ben is the key to unlocking Frankie from her sleep. But will the Heywoods risk their son to save their daughter...?
- DirectorStefano ChiantiniStarsAlessandro TiberiRocco PapaleoGiovanna MezzogiornoLove is not enough to sustain a relationship between two young Italians whose families are hoping to split them apart.
- DirectorGiorgio CapitaniStarsMassimo GhiniAlessandra MartinesClaude BrasseurAt the height of World War II, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, finds herself in a troubled marriage, facing the turmoil of a country headed toward tragedy
- DirectorEdoardo PontiStarsSophia LorenMira SorvinoDeborah Kara UngerThree women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
- DirectorGiuseppe M. GaudinoStarsValeria GolinoMassimiliano GalloAdriano GianniniAnna, mother of three, has lived for 40 years in her corner of hell. She was an impertinent and unfortunate girl, but by now she has become a generous woman, perhaps far too tolerant. She is a prisoner of her own duties and her family. She is comforted by underprivileged "poor little souls", but is actually surrounded by many demons, real and imaginary.
- DirectorChristina WayneStarsDominique SwainBrad RenfroBijou PhillipsA portrait of the increasingly desperate attempts of a teenage Manhattan girl to find love and kinship, in a world that never reciprocates.
- DirectorFrancesca MuciStarsAnna FogliettaGiulio BerrutiCamilla FilippiElena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, however, when she meets Adriana, an 18-year-old seductive young woman who offers passion and excitement, and Hector, an older man who offers Elena stability and security. Elena quickly realizes though that Adriana is too immature and too young for her, so she tries to end their romance, but for Adriana the rejection is just another game to play.
- DirectorAurelio GrimaldiStarsPenélope CruzStefano DionisiLorenza IndovinaAfter being caught for stealing, two sisters are sentenced to a religious institution for reform.
- DirectorStefano TummoliniStarsAndrea Miglio RisiAntonello FassariMarco RossettiA group of eight university friends spend a late summer weekend at the seaside, at the villa of one of them on the Roman coast, before embarking on a new academic year of exams and lessons. The boys spend their time having fun, sunbathing and going to the beach, until one of the components happens an accident that turns their holiday into a nightmare.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsJohn MalkovichDougray ScottLena HeadeyA dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniWim WendersStarsFanny ArdantChiara CaselliIrène JacobFour stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsStefano AccorsiMargherita BuyPierfrancesco FavinoThe confidences, hopes and disappointments of a group of friends.
- DirectorIlaria BorrelliStarsIlaria BorrelliPhilippe CaroitVanyoth LayThe journey of a women and a 10 year old girl, out of the South East Asian brothels.
- DirectorStefano IncertiStarsAlessio BoniGiuseppe BattistonJorge MarraleAn Italian journalist covering the 1978 World Cup in Argentina is swept into the military junta's reign of terror.
- DirectorFernando MuracaStarsValeria SolarinoLorenza IndovinaDaniela MarraA prosecutor attempts to fight organized crime in Calabria - Italy by pressuring familial ties among associates.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsMarie GillainAlex DescasLucia BosèIn Constantinople in the early 1900's, a young woman is brought into the sultan's harem and she manages to become his favorite. But the love she begins to feel for a eunuch ventures the outcome of her plan.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsMarie GillainAlex DescasLucia BosèIn Constantinople in the early 1900's, a young woman is brought into the sultan's harem and she manages to become his favorite. But the love she begins to feel for a eunuch ventures the outcome of her plan.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteJasmine TrincaA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsLaura MoranteStefano AccorsiAlessandro HaberThe life and scandalous loves of early 20th century poet Sibilla Aleramo.
- DirectorMassimiliano AmatoStarsNicola GarofaloMaria Cristina BluGiulia MorganiFreddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
- DirectorBalazs JusztStarsAna UlaruJordi MollàFrançois ArnaudTHE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be considered the same, though it also can be thought of in more classical cinematic terms a psychological and supernatural thriller.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
- DirectorFrancesca ComenciniStarsMargherita BuyGaetano BrunoGiovanni LudenoAn unexpected pregnancy and premature birth become a burden that Maria is unprepared for. Lacking control over events for the first time in her life, she retreats into an emotional space where she is alone, until the day arrives when she must learn to live again for her vulnerable child.
- DirectorRob SchmidtStarsMonica KeenaEllen BarkinMichael IronsideA darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuyMaria RoveranMarta GastiniWhen Caterina accepts a job offer in a Hotel in Belgrade, her three friends decide to follow her despite their problems, starting an on the road adventure which will mark a turning point in their lives.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsKim Rossi StuartMicaela RamazzottiMartina GedeckA narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and his previously devoted wife's extra-marital inclinations.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsValeria GolinoAdriano GianniniArianna ScommegnaTeo has a good job, a fiancee, lovers, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. The meeting with Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsTara BuckmanCharlie EdwardsLouie EliasAn unscrupulous female stockbroker who uses her feminine wiles to get valuable information lands in hot water when she has an affair with a father and his son.
- DirectorDonato CarrisiStarsToni ServilloAlessio BoniLorenzo RichelmySpecial agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old's disappearance.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMichela CesconVitaliano TrevisanRoberto ComacchioVittorio, a goldsmith looking for his perception of beauty, meets Sonia and manages to convince her to lose weight to an unhealthy degree.
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsAlba RohrwacherEmily FerratelloLars EidingerYears after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsRiccardo ScamarcioSharon StoneCristiana CapotondiA young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiography.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioLaura MoranteNicoletta RomanoffThe members of a comfortable Italian family each struggle with their own secret issues and dilemmas.
- DirectorPaolo FranchiStarsBarbora BobulovaAndrea RenziBrigitte CatillonValeria is a 26-yr-old inhibited and solitary girl. She lives in Turin, Italy, where she works as a simultaneous translator. There are no romantic relationships in her life, but she allows herself one almost ritualistic attachment: that of observing Massimo, a man in his forties who lives in the apartment across the street from her, totally unaware of her. Occasionally, they have a few fleeting encounters - Valeria happens to translate for Massimo at a conference - and eventually something starts growing between them. When Massimo moves to Rome, Valeria's existence falls apart. On a sudden impulse, she decides to leave Turin and follow him there. In Rome, Valeria soon finds out that Massimo has another woman - Flavia. Valeria causes an "accidental meeting" with her and a certain immediate sympathy between the two women develops, along with a strange mutual curiosity. Nonetheless, their "friendship" is based on subtle betrayals and lies. Flavia in fact uses Valeria's fragile introversion as a catalyst for the novel she is writing about her late husband. She was close to building up an emotional life with Massimo but now she chooses to go on working on the novel about her dead husband. For Valeria, on the other hand, the older woman becomes the only desperate link between her and the man she is falling in love with. And Massimo finally decides to follow his own romantic dream with Valeria. But Valeria is unable to face a real relationship...
- DirectorKim Rossi StuartStarsAlessandro MoraceKim Rossi StuartBarbora BobulovaA young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
- DirectorAnnarita ZambranoStarsJean-Marc BarrGiuseppe BattistonBarbora BobulovaAn Italian insurgent living with his teenage daughter in France discovers that he no longer has political asylum, and the family he left behind in Italy are forced to answer for his past sins.
- DirectorIvano De MatteoStarsAlessandro GassmannGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioTensions between two brothers and their families escalate when a video of two teenagers, possibly son of one brother and daughter of the other, beating a homeless woman to death, shows up.
- DirectorGuy ÉdoinStarsMonica BellucciPascale BussièresLarissa CorriveauAn actress mother and her estranged gay son's lives intersect with those of two medical professionals after an unexpected tragedy, forcing secrets to be revealed and personal demons to be dealt with.
- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsMarco LeonardiCaterina MurinoTomas AranaOn June 27th 1980 a DC9 belonging to the private Italian airline ITAVIA disappears from the radar screens without launching any emergency signal and crashes between the islands of Ponza and Ustica. Eightyone persons died. The hypotheses on the disappearance of the DC9 are three: structural failure, a bomb in the rear toilet of the plane, or an air-to-air missile which struck the civil aircraft by mistake during a battle between unidentified military fighters. Roberta Bellodi, a Sicilian journalist who lost her daughter on that night, and Corrado di Acquaformosa, a Deputy in the Italian Parliament, member of the Commission set up to throw light on the crash of DC 9, try to find out the truth, entangling themselves in a labyrinth of cover-ups, disappearance of proofs and key witnesses. Their researches lead them to a fourth, bloodcurdling hypothesis.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLuca ArgenteroViolante PlacidoNeri MarcorèMattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsAngela FontanaMarianna FontanaAntonia TruppoDaisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, "I can separate you.".