Glasgow Cinema: Italian Film Festival, 7 – 13 March

Italian Film Festival

GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

7th – 13th March, 2014

The 2014 Festival highlights an exciting and diverse line-up of contemporary and classic Italian cinema, including hilarious comedies, engaging dramas and nail-biting thrillers. There’s also landmark classics from award- winning directors and actors, many of whom, like Giueseppe Tornatore, Roberto Andò, Daniele Luchetti and Paolo Genovese, may be familiar from previous editions.

www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/whats_on/season:italian_film_festival

Films include:

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The Best Offer

GFT
Friday 7 March
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush is on commanding form in this elegantly intriguing mystery from Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore. Rush plays Virgil Oldman, an imperious art historian and auctioneer who can spot a fake from a mile away. When he is asked to value the contents of a vast mansion, he becomes curious about the reclusive owner Claire who suffers acutely from agoraphobia. A growing infatuation tips over into obsession in a film that carries echoes of Vertigo and The Consequences of Love.

Introduction by Professor Joe Farrell who worked with Giuseppe Tornatore on the English script for the film

Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

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Long Live Liberty

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Nominated for twelve David di Donatello awards, including Best Film and Best Actor, Long Live Liberty is a tasty political farce with a delicious performance from The Great Beauty ’s Toni Servillo. Enrico Olivieri (Servillo) is the stern, uninspiring leader of Italy’s main opposition party. One day he flees the country and his chief aide turns to his mercurial twin brother Giovanni (also played by Servillo). Giovanni is soon having the time of his life, ripping up the rule-book and taking the political debate straight to the people.

Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

Although the trailer does not have subtitles, the screening at GFT will have English subtitles. 

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A Five Star Life

Saturday 8 March

 
Margherita Buy won the David di Donatello Best Actress prize for her terrific performance in this breezy, polished drama from Maria Sole Tognazzi. Fortysomething Irene (Buy) has an enviable life as a hotel inspector. However, a series of events provoke an existential crisis in which Irene is forced to question what she might have sacrificed to attain her carefree life of luxury. A shrewd reflection on the life of the career woman that has earned comparisons with Up in the Air.

Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

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Fellini’s Roma

Sunday 9 March
 
Federico Fellini is an incomparable guide to the Eternal City in an autobiographical film that mixes fond memories of his childhood visits to Rome during the era of Mussolini in the 1930s with vivid fantasies and striking impressions of the city in the 1970s. Peter Gonzales plays the teenage Fellini as he moves into a Rome tenement building and meets a succession of wild characters who populate the neighbourhood. The digital restoration ensures that this Fellini classic is looking better than ever.


Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

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 A Perfect Family

Dates Showing:
Monday 10 March
Show Times:
20:20 [ see showings ]
 
Leone is a very wealthy, very lonely man. He makes the decision to create a family Christmas by writing a script and hiring professional actors to play different family members. The comedian Fortunato, his wife Carmen, the old Rosa and young Sun, Moon and Peter are the cast of the ramshackle company who, when in the presence of Leone, play their parts. However, when alone they become themselves again, expressing their own thoughts and feelings about their real lives and this absurd project that they have agreed to participate in.


Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

Although the trailer does not have subtitles, the screening at GFT will have English subtitles.

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Sandra

Tuesday 11 March

Made immediately after his masterpiece The Leopard, Luchino Visconti’s rarely seen Sandra has been restored to its sparkling best. Claudia Cardinale’s steely, neurotic Sandra returns to her home-town of Volterra in Tuscany, accompanied by her new husband Andrew (Michael Craig). Confronted upon their arrival by a distraught mother, a former lover and her dashingly handsome, deeply devoted brother, this is a modern day interpretation of the Electra myth transformed into a stark, hothouse melodrama with strong echoes of Tennessee Williams.

Introduction by Pasquale Iannone of University of Edinburgh.

All tickets are £5
Although the trailer has French subtitles, the screening at GFT will have English subtitles.

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Ali Blue Eyes

Wednesday 12 March
 
Claudio Giovannesi’s acclaimed, award-winning feature brings a fresh, sharply observant eye to the life of a teenager torn between the demands of his family roots and the opportunities in the country where he was born. Sixteen-year-old Nader’s Egyptian parents constantly remind him of his Muslim identity, especially when he starts dating Brigitte, an Italian Christian. Conflicts with the values of his parents and trouble with his unpredictable friend Stefano test his loyalty and leave him questioning exactly where he belongs in this confusing, complex world.


Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

Although the trailer does not have subtitles, the screening at GFT has English subtitles.

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The Great War

Thursday 13 March
Mario Monicelli’s masterpiece shared the Golden Lion at Venice in 1959 and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film. In 1916, Giovanni from Milan and Oreste from Rome are called up to join the army. They are united in their desire to stay out of the firing line and live to see peace. At first they are dispatched to the quiet village of Tigliano where Giovanni falls in love with prostitute Costantina. Gradually, the heat of war inches towards them in a film that deftly walks the fine line between tragedy and comedy.


Part of the Italian Film Festival ticket deal. Buy five films for £35 / £27.50 (excluding Sandra).

Although the trailer does not have English subtitles, the screening at GFT will have English subtitles.

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