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Languages and Literatures

Film italiani - primavera 2013

Appuntamento al cinema! Everyone is welcome!

little boy looking at a film strip

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Contact: Loredana Di Martino (ldm@sandiego.edu | 260-3746 | Founders 144-A)

6 febbraio

Le chiavi di casa

Presented by Professor Patroncini at 2:30 p.m. in Kroc IPJ 218

Having suffered a traumatic birth, Paolo is disabled both physically and psychologically and must travel to a special hospital in Berlin for rehabilitation. Gianni, who accompanies the boy to Berlin in hopes of getting to know his estranged son, meets Nicole, a strong woman dedicating herself entirely to the care of her handicapped daughter, and through their conversations, Nicole helps Gianni come to terms with the guilt of having abandoned Paolo. This revelation results in an unexpected and fragile happiness between a father and a son discovering each other and themselves in a place far from home.

 

18 febbraio

vincere

Presented by Professor Di Martino at 7 p.m. in Kroc IPJ 215

In Vincere, the closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions. Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini’s charisma, Ida Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wife, the scorned Dalser and her son are locked away in separate asylums for more than a decade. But Ida will not disappear without a fight.

 

21 marzo

Aida (opera by verdi)

Presented by Professor Metzger at 7 p.m. in Kroc IPJ 215

 

18 aprile

Mine vaganti

Presented by Professor Guidarelli at 12:15 p.m. in Kroc IPJ 215

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans. (from rottentomatoes.com

 

8 maggio

L'uomo che verrà

Presented by Professor Hepp at 7 p.m. in Kroc IPJ 215

Following on from his mightily impressive debut feature, The Wind Blows Round, Giorgio Diritti returns with this larger scale World War Two drama. Set, like the previous film, within a remote community – this time the farms, villages and countryside outside Bologna – The Man Who Will Come depicts, with lyrical simplicity and austerely beautiful images, the rhythms of life and work in a culture largely unchanged for centuries. Gradually, though, the reality of war begins to impinge as Germans arrive and fighting between the soldiers and partisans (located nearby and hidden within the community) escalates. Inexorably, the settled world of the community begins to disintegrate, and is eventually destroyed in a sad, savage and shocking climax. Based on real events, including a massacre of ordinary citizens in these farming communities, The Man Who Would Come is an original, engrossing and very moving film, that confirms Giorgio Diritti as a major filmmaker in contemporary Italian cinema. —BFI