Contemporary Italian Cinema 2023: Italy at the dawn of the third Millennium
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.
Perfetta illusione (Vernissage) (by Pappi Corsicato, 2022)
Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths of the three will intertwine in a dangerous love triangle that will change the course of their lives forever.
Admission $10 (including one drink)
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