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Benvenuti to the 20th edition of the Italian Film Festival, curated by Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe: this year we bring you six screenings covering everything from contemporary romance to timeless classics. Throughout the festival Jute Café Bar are offering special bruschetta sharing boards for £10 or for £15 with two glasses of Pinot Grigio. Dormant Beauty Bella addormentata Wed 17 April, 18:00 The case of Eluana Englaro became a lightning rod for the debate about euthanasia in Italy. Englaro was injured in a car accident and spent 17 years in a vegetative state as her father fought a legal battle to end her life. Marco Bellocchio's complex, compelling feature explores the case and its implications through three fictional stories: a senator grapples with his conscience before a crucial parliamentary vote on the right to life; a devoutly Catholic actress abandons her career to care for her stricken child and a methadone addict begs to end her life as a doctor strives to sustain it. A chilly Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo and a wonderfully lugubrious Roberto Herlitzka head an impressive cast in a powerful, thought-provoking reflection on matters of life and death. Dir: Marco Bellocchio Italy 2012 / 1h50m / Digital / 15 Italian with English subtitles 18 www.dca.org.uk Me and You Io e te Thu 18 April, 18:00 It has been almost a decade since Bernardo Bertolucci’s last film, but Me and You shows that the great Italian auteur has lost none of his mastery. Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) is a 14 year-old wrestling with his self-consciousness through sessions with his therapist and mother. In a striking show of independence, he decides to skip a week-long class ski trip and hole up alone in the family’s storage basement. However, Lorenzo’s dream of a week of solitary escape is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of his half-sister Olivia (Tea Falco), who discovers his hideout while rummaging around in the cellar. Though Olivia vows to keep Lorenzo’s secret safe, she also brings a new set of complications into this strange situation: she is a junkie who has decided it’s time to go cold turkey. Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci Italy 2012 / 1h43m / Digital / 15 Italian with English subtitles Every Blessed Day Tutti i santi giorni Fri 19 April, 18:00 Paulo Virzi's delightful romantic comedy has been a huge box office hit in Italy and helped to establish Luca Marinelli as one of the country's rising stars. Marinelli plays Guido, a shy, unassuming intellectual who works as a night porter in Rome. He is besotted with Antonia, a restless, unpredictable young woman who dreams of becoming a singer and works for a car rental company. Jobs and lifestyles mean they only see each other early in the morning as Guido returns from work and prepares breakfast. They are a perfectly happy couple until they decide that the one thing that would make their lives complete is a baby. A tender, touching comedy unfolds, made all the more appealing by its fairytale feel and talented cast. Dir: Paolo Virzi Italy 2012 / 1h42m / Digital / 15 Italian with English subtitles
Stromboli Sat 20 April, 13:15 Sadly, Stromboli is best known as the film which lured Ingrid Bergman from Hollywood and marked the beginning of her tempestuous affair with director Roberto Rossellini. The perceived immorality of the couple prompted the American distributors to mutilate the film. However, shown in its original form as it is here, this is clearly a major work which is ripe for rediscovery. The plot is simple: a wartime refugee marries an Italian fisherman but finds life with him on a volcanic island difficult. However, the film’s brilliance lies in its naturalistic details, including a superb sequence depicting the fishermen at work; the unadorned dialogue, which often grew out of improvisation; the superb performances, with Bergman working brilliantly with a cast of nonprofessionals; and the potent symbolism of the volcano, which towers over the film. Moreover, far from being immoral, this is one of the great films about the spiritual quests of ordinary people. Dir: Roberto Rossellini Italy 1950 / 1h21m / Digital / 15 Italian with English subtitles Nina Sat 20 April, 18:00 Elisa Fuksas' much-admired debut feature provides a plum role for Diane Fleri as Nina, a lost soul drifting through life in a sun-bleached Rome that everyone else has abandoned for the summer. Nina has agreed to spend the sweltering months house-sitting a friend's apartment and caring for his hamster, aquarium and depressed dog. She has no plans, no relationship and no great ambitions other than a desire to visit China. As she strolls the streets, whizzes around on a vespa and satisfies her sweet tooth, Nina's niggling existential angst makes her the modern equivalent of a character in an Antonioni film. Her friendship with 10 year-old Ettore and the acquisition of an admirer in shaggyhaired cellist Fabrizio set her on the road to a summer she will never forget. Dir: Elisa Fuksas Italy 2012 / 1h20m / Digital / 15 Italian with English subtitles The Son Did It È stato il figlio Sun 21 April, 18:00 Daniele Cipri's rowdy, bittersweet comedy is like a cross between Shameless and exuberant grand opera as it charts the life of the spectacularly dysfunctional Ciraulo family. Toni Servillo is on top form as the head of a clan struggling to survive in the crumbling ruins of a housing estate on the outskirts of Palermo. They scrape by even as the water runs out and the television goes on the blink. A family tragedy threatens to make them rich with compensation money but merely sows the seeds for further woes. A vulgar, scathing satire on the cruel ironies of life in the Mafia-dominated Italian South, Cipri's first solo feature was one of the prime Italian prizewinners at the most recent Venice Film Festival. Dir: Daniele Cipri Italy 2012 / 1h30m / Digital / 18 Italian with English subtitles Tickets 01382 909 900 19
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