Contemporary Italian Cinema 2023: Italy at the dawn of the third Millenium
With the forthcoming one, in 2023, the series of collaborations between the Italian Cultural Institute and the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre is extended to nine. Nine editions during which the Institute and the cultural hub of the Liverpool City Council has offered the Western area of Sydney a wide and qualitative choice of feature films starting with the masterpieces of Neorealism and continuing with the retrospectives dedicated to Mastroianni and Fellini, and with the screening of the most recent works by many Italian directors, thus offering the ever-large audience a cross-section of contemporary Italy.
This year, the series is entitled Italy at the dawn of the third millennium with a clear reference to the now consolidated choice of proposing a series of films by directors, women and men, whose cameras scrutinize the events, including private ones, of Italians of today, recounting today’s events of a true, lively, sometimes contradictory and yet modern Italy. With one exception: this year we wanted to include an Australian production, that Palazzo di Cozzo by the Italian-Australian director Madeleine Martiniello, which nonetheless tells of a self-made man, an Italian immigrant who found success and well-being in Australia.
Come le tartarughe (Like Turtles) (by Monica Dugo, 2022)
Daniele, Lisa, Sveva and Paolo, an apparently perfect bourgeois family. One day the husband empties out of the closet and goes away. The empty wardrobe becomes for Lisa the ideal place to take refuge and process the separation. Sveva her fifteen-year-old daughter, does everything to get her out, not accepting her mother’s bizarre behavior and her father’s inexplicable absence. Daniele won’t go home, but Lisa will be able, thanks to the love of her children and a newfound strength, to take the first step towards overcoming the pain.
Admission $10 (including one drink)
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