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A Flat for Three (Posti in piedi in paradiso)

Cinema Italia

Life in a Time of Crisis – An Italian Perspective

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is proud to announce the launch of a collaboration with Palace Cinemas which will present a series of screenings as well as retrospectives dedicated to some of the most significant cultural and social aspects of Italian life as well as representative figures of Italian cinema.

The first collaboration, Cinema Italia. Life in a Time of Crisis – An Italian Perspective, will present a selection of contemporary Italian movies that will take the viewers on a journey through Italy during a time of economic crisis, offering a spectrum of everyday life which shows that, no matter how dire the situation, life goes on.

Hosted at Palace Cinema Norton Street on one Tuesday of each month, guests will receive an antipasto and prosecco on arrival, with a film introduction to precede the screening, followed by a Q&A with a special guest and moderated by Antonella Beconi, convenor for Italian at the Centre of Continuing Education, University of Sydney, on behalf of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

9 April, 6.30 pm
A Flat for Three (Posti in piedi in paradiso)
By Carlo Verdone, 2012, 119’

One of Italy’s most popular contemporary filmmakers, Carlo Verdone returns to the screen with a kind of odd couple for the new millennium. Only now it’s three divorced men who decide to share an apartment together in Rome. All three are drifting towards uncertain futures while still stuck in unresolved pasts. One (Verdone) is a record collector lost in a world of classic rock; another (Pier Francesco Favino) is a former film critic reduced to writing gossip columns. The last (Marco Giallini) tries to sell real estate as an excuse to meet women. Clearly a response to the economic and spiritual crisis gripping Italy, A Flat for Three is one of Verdone’s most sharply observed comedies. These housemates may not know how to solve their own problems, but each is full of ideas about how to help the other two.

*Q&A with Cristiana Palmieri, reporter FRED Film

ADMISSION PRICES
• Full price: $24
• IIC members, Palace Movie Club members & Students: $19*

* University of Sydney, UTS, UNSW, Macquarie University, Centre of Continuing Education students

Information and bookings: www.palacecinemas.com.au