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Two films from the Official Selection will be presented tomorrow, Wednesday October 20th, at the Rome Film Fest.
At 10 pm, in Sala Sinopoli, there will be a screening of Lost Leonardo, the documentary by Andreas Koefoed dedicated to the controversial story behind the Salvator Mundi, the art work sold at the highest price ever paid in history by an individua collector, 450 million dollars, and considered by many to be the long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
In Sala Petrassi, at 10:30 pm, the screening will feature Terrorizers by Ho Wi-ding. In Taipei, before the Covid-19 pandemic, the lives of a group of young lost souls are involved and interwoven in a collective story of love, desire, passion, envy and revenge, that revolves around what occurred before and after a tragic act of violence committed in public.
The day will begin at 4 pm in Sala Sinopoli at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, with QAZAQ – History of the Golden Man, produced by Oliver Stone and directed by the Ukrainian filmmaker Igor Lopatonok. In the film, the American director also takes the role of special interviewer: sitting in front of him, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first president of Kazakhstan, who came to power in 1990, and retired in 2019. A long – and sometimes controversial – conversation between the Hollywood master and the former leader, ranging from geopolitics to lifestyle, culture to private life. QAZAQ is enriched by a musical score composed by Carlo Siliotto, one of the most authoritative international experts on traditional Kazakh music. Stone and Lopatonok will be on the red carpet of the Fest at 3:30 pm.
Oliver Stone will then be at the MAXXI at 6:30 pm to present JFK – Destiny Betrayed, the new four-part series he made about the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Thirty years after his film JFK, Oliver Stone examines the recently declassified documents concerning one of the most controversial mysteries of the twentieth century. With the voice-overs of Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, and a group of forensic scientists, doctors, ballistics experts, historians and witnesses, the evidence presented by Stone demonstrates that in the Kennedy case, the conspiracy theory is now reality.
At 8 pm, Oliver Stone will be the guest of the Teatro Palladium: the filmmaker will be on stage to present to Festgoers the film JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, the film version of the series JFK: Destiny Betrayed.
At 4:30 pm, in Sala Petrassi, there will be the screening of Vitti d’arte, Vitti d’amore by Fabrizio Corallo. Necessarily removed from the spotlight, here Monica Vitti shines with a light that remains intact to the eyes of audiences at every latitude. The focus is on the artistic career and the surprising life, with all its twists and turns, of an actress who is introverted and sunny at the same time, in clips from her films and television programmes, and reminiscences from her friends and colleagues, as well as leading figures in the Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and lifestyle experts.
Shortly before, at 4 pm, there will be a presentation at the MAXXI of Ramona e Giulietta – Quando l’amore è un pretesto, a personal re-interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays by the actresses of the Rebibbia women’s prison, directed by Francesca Tricarico with music by Giulia Anania. A comic tragedy in one act, created inside the prison, yet reaching far beyond its walls. The event has been organized by the Per Ananke association, with the support of the Officine di Teatro Sociale, the Lazio Region, and Lush.
The Rome Film Fest arrives at the Pope’s shelter for the poor and treats its guests to an opportunity to take part in the Fest, with a special screening of Bar Giuseppe by Giulio Base just for them. The event will take place tomorrow, Wednesday October 20th at 5:30 pm, at Palazzo Migliori.
On October 20th the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma meets the Rome Film Fest for the first of three evening events, when Rome’s Opera House turns into a movie theatre for three screenings that illustrate the courageous path undertaken by the Teatro dell’Opera during this difficult pandemic year. The first evening will be dedicated to Rigoletto, with the world premieres of two original new projects: the film-opera Rigoletto al Circo Massimo by Damiano Michieletto, which offers a cinematic experience of the opera, followed by the documentary Rigoletto 2020. Nascita di uno spettacolo by Enrico Parenti, a backstage view of the production that was staged in the summer of 2020 at the Circus Maximus, and the first new opera production scheduled in Europe after the lockdown.
L’uomo del bene by Giancarlo Rolandi, a film conceived to tell the story of the physician Franco Mandelli, will be presented at 8:30 pm at the Cinema Adriano. The documentary develops through the letters of one of his patients, Vanessa, a very young girl who was in his care. When Vanessa lost her battle against leukemia, Mandelli entitled La Residenza to her. Since 1994, in Via Forli in Rome, it has hosted 4,600 guests, both patients and family members, free of charge.
The Fest’s Retrospective dedicated to Arthur Penn and curated by Mario Sesti continues at 8:30 pm in the Casa del Cinema, with the screening of Four Friends.
Notting Hill by the late Roger Michell is the Film Of Our Lives chosen by the artistic director of the Rome Film Fest, Antonio Monda. The film will be screened at 6 pm at the Casa del Cinema. “I like everything about this delightful, intelligent film: the London setting, the comical moments assigned to the bumbling lead and his roommate, the parts where sickness and grief are overcome through love and solidarity and the ones that show all the folly of the star system.”
The screening programme offered by Rome’s independent bookshops doubles up on Wednesday with two events, one at the Libreria Tomo, at 6:30 pm, when Fest audiences can catch Smetto quando voglio by Sydney Sibilia, and the other, a screening of Fortapàsc by Marco Risi, at the Teatro San Leonardo at 8:45 pm, courtesy of Acilia Libri.
There are six repeat screenings tomorrow, in two different venues. At 5 pm and 9 pm, at SCENA, the films to catch are Se dicessimo la verità and Notti in bianco, baci a colazione, respectively; while My Cityplex Savoy will be screening Una película sobre parejas and Libertad in sala 2, at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm respectively, and over in sala 1, Yuni and Crazy for Football, at 6 pm and 9 pm respectively
