‘The Cinema!? Count me in!’ I was ecstatic. I hadn’t been to a cinema in what felt like centuries. It was actually just under a year, but that last time had been an isolated event in which I’d walked into a beautiful little indie cinema house in Rome to escape…

I’m not religious, but my community is. My neighbours, my relatives, the people who congregate in streets and courtyards and city squares range from pretty religious to intensely religious. By which I mean Catholic. In the Roman Catholic calendar, May is the ‘Marian month’, the month of Mary, virgin mother…