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Caravaggio’s Shadow will be screened tomorrow, Tuesday October 18th, at the seventeenth Rome Film Fest: the public is invited to attend the preview screening of the new film by Michele Placido, starting at 9:30 pm in Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. To tell the story of the life of Michelangelo Merisi from an original point of view, for his fourteenth film the director invents the character of the Shadow (Garrel): an investigator who spies on the painter for Pope Paul V and has been asked to test his orthodoxy. Placido’s Caravaggio is not just a rockstar before his time and an “artiste maudit”, he’s also a full-blown rebel against the powers that be, who reject the truth that is his most urgent concern.
At 6:30 pm, in the same venue, the Freestyle section will feature the screening of La California by Cinzia Bomoll. La California is a piece of countryside between Via Emilia and the West, made up of many microcosms interwoven into a genuine collective community that is both visceral and ironic, and Emilian. Written by the director together with Piera degli Esposti (narrating voice, for her last film), the film blends faces, types and atmospheres, and plays on the surreal levity of a community in which eccentric figures such as Nina Zilli and Angela Baraldi, Vito, Lodo Guenzi, Andrea Roncato and even the legend of Chilean cinema Alfredo Castro, can easily coexist.
In the same section, at 8:30 pm at the MAXXI, the featured screening will be Trained to See – Three Women and the War by Luzia Schmid. During World War II, for the first time three American women served as official photo-reporters on the European front: Martha Gellhorn, Margaret Bourke-White and Lee Miller. The director reconstructs three parallel lives relying on highly dramatic material of excellent visual quality, some of which has never been made
public, which primarily records the liberation of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück, Buchenwald and Dachau, and Germany’s defeat.
As bestas by Rodrigo Sorogoyen will be presented at 7 pm in Sala Petrassi in the Best of 2022 section. In the film, a French couple moves into the country of Galizia to practice eco-responsible agriculture and open a farm restaurant. The locals, especially the thickset brothers on the neighbouring farm, don’t like them, and when the French couple votes against the opening of a wind farm, the hostilities erupt.
There are two films on the schedule from the Progressive Cinema Competition. At 6 pm, the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna will host the screening of Alam, Firas Khoury’s debut film, on universal themes such as love, friendship, the fight against injustice, the search for one’s identity and generational conflicts, within a context in which the assertion of young Palestinians is denied to them by a tragedy that began back in 1948. At 10 pm, in Sala Petrassi, the featured film will be Ramona by Andrea Bagney, whose debut film is a romantic comedy that unfolds amidst conversations and walks and neuroses, carried by the star Lourdes Hernandez.
Joe Wright, the acclaimed director of Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Darkest Hour, will be a guest of the Fest tomorrow, Tuesday October 18th at 4:30 pm in Sala Petrassi, together with the screenwriters Stefano Bises and Davide Serino for the Paso Doble “M. – La serir”. The three will present to the public the project for “M. Il figlio del secolo”, the new Sky Original series, produced by Sky Studios and by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a company in the Fremantle Group, in collaboration with Pathé. “M. Il figlio del secolo” is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Antonio Scurati, the international bestseller that won the Premio Strega literary award. The series will begin filming in coming weeks at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
At 8:30 pm in the Ferrero Cinema Adriano, the programme of the History of Cinema section will dedicate a tribute to maestro Bernardo Bertolucci with the screening of one of his masterpieces The Sheltering Sky, in collaboration with the Fondazione Bernardo Bertolucci. The screening will be introduced by filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.
The Casa del Cinema (at 5:45 pm, Sala Cinecittà) will feature the restored version of Duck in Orange Sauce by Luciano Salce, one hundred years after the birth of the great director. On stage to present the film will be Ricky Tognazzi. In the section Absolute Beginners, at 9:30 pm in Sala Cinecittà, the featured film will be Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, Mario Martone’s film debut. Released in theatres in 1992, the film won many acknowledgments, including the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’argento as Best Debut Director and the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize. The director will be on hand to introduce the screening. Of the documentaries in the History of Cinema section, at 8:15 pm, there will be a screening of Il sogno di una cosa by Leonardo Ferrari Carissimi, about the theory developed by painter Giuseppe Zigaina regarding the death of his friend Pasolini as the outcome of an artistic project. The mystery of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death will be explored in a second
documentary, Pasolini, cronologia di un delitto politico, scheduled to be screened on Friday October 21st in the same section: the director Paolo Fiore Angelini relies on eyewitness accounts and visual material from the archives to reconstruct the true story of the great artist’s murder. From the retrospective curated by Mario Sesti and titled “Ms. Woodward & Mr. Newman”, the screenings will present The Hustler by Robert Rossen (at 11 am) and Hud by Martin Ritt (at 3:30 pm), while at 6:30 pm and at 9 pm there will be repeat screenings of The Fugitive Kind by Sidney Lumet and, again, The Hustler by Robert Rossen (Sala Kodak). The same theatre will also host the repeat performances of other films: at 3 pm L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard by Sergio Naitza, and at 5 pm the third episode of The Last Movie Stars by Ethan Hawke.
MediCinema joins the seventeenth Rome Film Fest with two national preview screenings at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS. For the sixth consecutive year, in fact, the MediCinema movie theatre of the Roman hospital – located on the eighth floor, wing A – is one of the decentralised theatres of the Fest. The screenings will be an opportunity, for the patients and those accompanying them, to participate in a special event and meet the members of the casts, who will introduce the film and greet the audience. It starts tomorrow, Tuesday October 18th at 4 pm, with the preview screening of Astolfo by Gianni Di Gregorio.
At 11 am in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna, there will be a conference with free admission organized by Nuovo Imaie titled “The copyright directive: the remuneration for creativity on the web. Artists authors together for a collective agreement”. Participants in the meeting will include Barbara Bettelli (lawyer for Apa), Benedetto Habib (President of the Union of Producers of Anica), Andrea Miccicchè (President Nuovo Imaie), Stefano Sardo (President of the 100autori association), Gian Marco Tognazzi (actor, spokesman for Nuovo Imaie). The encounter will be moderated by Alvaro Moretti, deputy director of the daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
At 3 pm, the same theatre will host an event organized by the Agenzia delle Accise, Dogane e Monopoli, with free admission, on the occasion of the presentation of the short film “Metamorfosi: un canto del mare”, introduced by director Giovanni Pellegrini. The narration of the short film begins with the work of ADM, which finds and retrieves the boats abandoned in Lampedusa by migrants. The boats from which it was possible to retrieve the wood were later donated to the luthiery workshop in the Milano Opera prison, where the inmates build musical instruments. The “Metamorphosis “ project will be explained in a round table discussion moderated by Fabio Tamburini (director of Il Sole 24 Ore) with guest speakers: Pietro Curzio (First President of the Corte Suprema di Cassazione), Carlo Renoldi (Head of the Department of Penintentiary Administration), Marcello Minenna (Director General of the Agenzia delle Accise, Dogane e Monopoli), Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori (President of the Fondazione Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti), Roberto Occhiuto (President of the Regione Calabria), Filippo Mannino (Mayor of Lampedusa and Linosa) and Nicola Piovani (Composer and Conductor).
At the MAXXI at 3:30 pm, there will be conference dedicated to film distributors, in the series “Dialogues about the future of Italian cinema”: on stage will be Luigi Lonigro (01 Distribution), Antonio Medici (BIM Distribuzione), Andrea Occhipinti (Lucky Red), Massimiliano Orfei (Vision Distribution), Massimo Proietti (Universal Pictures International Italy). The encounter will be moderated by Piera Detassis.
The theme of men’s violence against women will be the focus of the two screeningsorganized on October 18th and 23rd at the MAXXI by the Rome Film Fest and Alice nella Città, in collaboration with the Casa Internazionale delle Donne. The screenings begin tomorrow, Tuesday October 18th, at 5 pm with La ragazza ha volato by Wilma Labate. The film tells the story of Nadia, an unconventional adolescent growing up alone in Trieste, a city at the crossroads of many cultures. A victim of abuse, the girl decides not to report it, but makes a powerful choice for self-determination. The themes explored in the film will be introduced by the director, together with the president of the Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Maura Cossutta, and the gynecologist and president of the ‘Vita di Donna’ association, Elisabetta Canitano.
In collaboration with the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the Fest returns to the New Prison (Nuovo Carcere) of Rebibbia, again involving the public of free citizens and the inmate population in the screening of Il principe di Roma, a film from the Grand Public section, scheduled for 3:30 pm.
There will be many repeat screenings at the Cinema Giulio Cesare: in Sala 1, audiences are invited to see Il maledetto by Giulio Base (at 4 pm) and Alam by Firas Khoury (at 6:30 pm); in Sala 3 the screenings will feature Il Principe di Roma by Edoardo Falcone (at 4:30 pm), La California by Cinzia Bomoll (at 7 pm) and Caravaggio’s Shadow by Michele Placido (at 10 pm); in sala 5 the screenings will feature Life Is (Not) A Game by Antonio Valerio Spera (at 5 pm), As bestas by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (at 7:30 pm) and Ramona by Andrea Bagney (at 10:30 pm); Sala 7, finally, will host the programme of screenings Enrico Cattaneo / Rumore Bianco by Francesco Clerici and Ruggero Gabbai and Nino Migliori. Viaggio intorno alla mia stanza by Elisabetta Sgarbi (at 4 pm) and the documentary 75 – Biennale Ronconi Venezia by Jacopo Quadri (at 9 pm).
The collaboration between the Rome Film Fest and the AGIS and ANEC movie theatres moves to the Lux, with the screening of Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona! by Ximo Solano (at 5:30 pm), Astolfo by Gianni Di Gregorio (at 7:30 pm) presented in the theatre by the actor Alberto Testone, and Django, the series by Francesca Comencini.
The selection of films to be screened at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher has the following films on the schedule for October 18th: Houria (at 4 pm), Foudre (at 6:15 pm), Il Colibrì (at 9 pm).
Scena will host the repeat screening of Louis Armstrong Black & Blues at 6:30 pm, while at 9 pm, the screening will be of Dario Fo: L’ultimo Mistero Buffo, introduced by the director Gianluca Rame.
The Teatro Palladium, a historic Roman movie theatre, now owned by the Università Roma Tre, at 8:30 pm will screen the film Life Is (Not) A Game by Antonio Valerio Spera.
