Ítölsk kvikmyndahátíð á morgun

Ítalska kvikmyndahátíðin, sem átti að vera um síðustu helgi en varð að fresta þar sem myndirnar skiluðu sér ekki til landsins í tæka tíð, verður haldin núna um helgina 27. til 29. mars.

Um helgina frá föstudegi til sunnudags verður efnt til ítalskrar kvikmyndahátíðar í Regnboganum. Sýndar verða þrjár myndir eftir leikstjórann Paolo Sorrentino. Myndirnar eru allar með enskum texta. Námsgrein í ítölsku við Háskóla Íslands og Regnboginn skipuleggja hátíðina með stuðningi Ítalska sendiráðsins á Íslandi.

Paolo Sorrentino er ungur ítalskur leikstjóri og handritshöfundur, fæddur 1970 í Napólí. Hann hefur hlotið margvísleg verðlaun fyrir myndir sínar. Á sýningunni má m.a. sjá fyrstu mynd hans í fullri lengd Man Up (L’uomo in più). Paolo hlaut alþjóðlega viðurkenningu fyrir myndina The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell’amore) sem einnig er sýnd á hátíðinni. Þriðja myndin sem verður sýnd er The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia), en hún var m.a. sýnd á London Film Festival í október 2006.

Nánari lýsingu og sýningartíma má sjá hér fyrir neðan á ensku.

Miðinn kostar 750 kr en 650 kr fyrir nemendur Háskóla Íslands.

Nánari upplýsingar um hátíðina veitir Simona Storchi, lektor í ítölsku, í síma 5254559, simona@hi.is

THE  FAMILY FRIEND
original title:  L’ AMICO DI FAMIGLIA
directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
cast: Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Gigi Angelillo, Clara Bindi, Marco Giallini, Barbara Valmorin
Italy, 2006
Geremia de’ Geremei, age seventy, money-lender, ugly, filthy, rich and stingy, cynical and ironic, has a morbid, obsessive, sick relationship with everything.  With his mother, his father, money, women, all in all with life. This is why he thinks he is alone. But he isn’t alone. Everyone is like him.
We are all like him.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE
original title: LE CONSEGUENZE DELL’AMORE
directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
cast: Toni Servillo, Adriano Giannini, Olivia Magnani, Angela Goodwin, Raffaele Pisu
Italy, 2004
Every man has his unmentionable secret. But Titta di Girolamo has more than one. It’s obvious. Otherwise why would a fifty year old man from the South be living in an anonymous hotel room for eight years, under the anonymous citizenship of a Swiss Italian? Eight years spent not working. At least it seems that way.
A dreadful routine, during the everlasting wait for something incredible to happen. What will happen? Alone. A lost man. Thinking for years about something that is hidden. But what is it? And why? Basically, what are Titta di Girolamo’s unmentionable secrets?

ONE MAN UP
original title: L’UOMO IN PIÚ
directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
cast: Andrea Renzi, Toni Servillo, Ninni Bruschetta, Peppe Lanzetta, Angela Goodwin, Nello Mascia, Italo Celoro
Italy 2001
Tony is a professional singer also known as Antonio Pisapia, born in Naples on August 15, 1934. He has namesake, Antonio Pisapia, a professional footballer, born in Narni Scalo on August 15, 1949. Although they share the same birthday, Tony and Antonio have nothing in common. We first encounter Tony and Antonio in 1980, at the height of success in their respective professions. Unfortunately it does not last. One day the two men meet and share experiences and life stories without ever speaking: the surrender of one means the redemption of the other.

Sýningartímar

Föstudagur / Friday
The Family Friend kl 17.30
One Man Up kl 18.00

Laugardagur / Saturday
The Family Friend kl 15.30
One Man Up kl 15.30
THE CONSEQUENCES OF love kl 18.00

Sunnudagur / Sunday
One Man Up kl 15.30
THE CONSEQUENCES OF love kl 15.30
The Family Friend kl 17.30