an event promoted by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
in conjunction with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale
The Palazzo delle Esposizioni uses the silver screen to explore Italy today: after the golden years of our country's classic cinema, we're now going to be taking a look at the work of directors who have achieved success or simply appeared on the scene in recent years. Italian cinema is in great shape, giving the lie to those who are always questioning its state of health, always grumbling that it's on its deathbed, with a solid pick-me-up of successful movies. We are witnessing a broad creative renaissance fuelled with innovative energy in narrative and stylistic terms, that transcends the banal and the obvious generated by television. New ideas and outlooks are creating room for the talent of young actors whose features reflect the real faces of our precarious times. They're good-looking but they're still dirty, turned sour by the tribulations of life, to paraphrase Scola's celebrated film title. As in the best tradition, mixing stories and genres, drama and comedy, this generation of filmmakers takes a serious look at our – insecure, threatening and at times downright unlivable – country, seeking out a potential pathway for understanding what makes it tick. The screen for them is the cracked mirror of the present, just as it was for the great masters of the past, and this has prompted us to open each section of the season, in which films are ideally grouped by thematic affinity, with a great classic of the past. The retrospective, containing numerous films which, while important, occasionally find it hard to emerge, offers us an unmissable opportunity to get into these films and to figure out who we really are.
Our gratitude for the films goes to: Academy Two, Bim Distribuzione, Bolero Film, Cineforum Teramo “Lumiére - Gianni Di Venanzo 1920-1966”, Distribuzione Indipendente, Fandango, Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, Good Films, Istituto Luce Cinecittà srl, Jolefilm, Koch Media, Lucky Red, Medusa, NeroFilm, Officine UBU, Parthénos, Rai Cinema – 01 Distribution, Tempesta Film and Warner Bros.
Info
Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Sala Cinema
Admission via steps in via Milano 9a, Rome
Admission free while places last
Places will be assigned from one hour before the start of each screening. Reservations may be made by membership card holders only. There will no further admission once the event has started.