Cinema Italia 2023 – Family relationships in contemporary Italy: a progressive journey towards freedom and acceptance
The Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney renews its collaboration with Palace Cinemas also in 2023 by presenting a series of film dedicated to some of the most significant contemporary cultural and social aspects of Italian life as well as representative figures of Italian cinema.
This year the series will be entitled Family relationships in contemporary Italy: a progressive journey towards freedom and acceptance, and will include a series of recently produced Italian films that will offer the public a close-up view of some dynamics, sometimes conflicting, that can develop in the family environment .
Screenings will be held at the Palace Cinemas Norton Street, Leichhardt. Viewers will receive a glass of prosecco upon arrival.
The screenings will be preceded by a brief introduction by one or more invited guests (specific for each film), who will also be available to answer questions from the audience at the end of the screening. Coordinator on behalf of the Italian Cultural Institute and moderator during the Q&A will be Diletta Rusca, Bachelor of Arts (English – Italian and Chinese Studies), Advanced TESOL diploma, tutor in English, ESL, Essay writing, IELTS, Italian, reading, special needs.
Per amor vostro (For your love)(by Giuseppe Gaudino, 2015)
Giuseppe Gaudino’s first fiction feature in nearly 20 years is a mesmerising tale of an ordinary life told in an extraordinary way. Shot in contrasting turns of pale black and white and rich colour, this is the story of Anna (Valeria Golino), a wife and mother in Naples who works as a television prompter. Locals know her as a ‘capasciacqua’ (featherbrain), but this masks a much darker state of mind. She sees visions of apocalyptic clouds rolling over the bay of Naples, her bus to work is flooded with sea water and her fellow commuters jabber at her incessantly. Her comfortable existence and loving children are overridden by her husband Gigi. An unscrupulous loan shark, he spends his days screaming abuse at her and their deaf-mute son Arturo. But when she meets Michele, a kind man who sees beyond her eccentricities, she sees the chance of a new and better life.
Q&A with Federico Solchi, broadcaster at the SBS Radio Italian programme.
ADMISSION PRICES
- Full price: $20
- IIC members, Palace Movie Club members & Students: $15*
* University of Sydney, UTS, UNSW, Macquarie University, Centre of Continuing Education students
Information and bookings: www.palacecinemas.com.au
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