Event Italian Film Festival
Date 6-10 June
Venue SFX Cinema on 6th Floor at the Emporium Shopping Complex
Tel: 02-268 8888
 
Welcome to 'Italian Film Festival' 2009 with a variety of 19 films
within a week!
 
Italian cinematography is well-known for its artistic aspects for
decades. Audiences are drawn to Italian films in numbers unseen
since the days of Fellini And Antonioni.
 
The file at the opening night will be '13 at a Table', followed by
many other films which reflect Italian way of life and thoughts,
whether in the past or present.
Opening ceremony of Italian film festival        
     
Cinema Program Format
 

CINEMA


synopsis & trailer  
13 At a Table (Tredici a Tavola)
Directed by :
Enrico Oldoini
Cast : Giancarlo Giannini, Paolo Bonacelli, Kasia Smutniak, Alessandro Benvenuti, Angela Finocchiaro, Maria Amelia Monti, Nicolas Vaporidis, Silvia De Santis

Giulio returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with the entire family, in order to arrange for its sale together with his brothers and cousins. The house brings back memories of his youth and he makes an important decision. “A sentimental comedy, light but without vulgarity, of the family and the importance of recalling.”
 


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THE BEST DAY  (IL GIORNO PIU' BELLO)
Directed by :
Massimo Cappelli
Cast : Violante Placido, Fabio Troiano, Carla Signoris, Max Bruno, Luce Caponegro (Aka Selen), Enrico Salimbeni, Claudia Zanella, Shel Shapiro, Marco Manetti

The story of a successful 35 year-old whose fiancée suggests they get married. He is at first reluctant, but in the end will agree to confront the stereotypes about marriage. At last the best day arrives! Leo will discover that the destiny has already chosen for him.
 


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THE FAMILY FRIEND
Directed by :
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast : Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Gigi Angelillo, Clara Bindi, Marco Giallini, Barbara Valmorin

Geremia de’Geremei, age seventy, money-lender, ugly, filthy, rich and stingy, cynical and ironic, has a morbid, obsessive, sick relationship with everything, all in all with life. But he isn’t alone. Everyone is like him. We are all like him.
 


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Salty Air (L’Aria Salata)
Directed by :
Alessandro Angelini
Cast : Giorgio Pasotti, Michela Cescon, Katy Sounders, Giorgio Colangeli, Sergio Solli

A young prison officer has the task of deciding whether inmates are allowed temporary release from jail, due to particular personal circumstances. In the course of one such assessment, the young man is shocked to discover that the inmate he is interviewing is apparently his long lost father.
 


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Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
Directed by :
Silvio Soldini
Cast : Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Caterina Rohrwacher, Carla Signoris, Fabio Troiano, Paolo Sassanelli, Arnaldo Ninchi

The story of Elsa and Michele, a respectable well-off couple. Yet, Michele suddenly confesses that he has been out of a job for two months. Life for Elsa and Michele will certainly not be easy as they face the unknown and very different future.
 


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Mater Natura
Directed by :
Massimo Andrei
Cast : Maria Pia Calzone, Vladimir Luxuria, Enzo Moscato, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Luca Ward, Franco Javarone

The young and beautiful transvestite Desiderio is deeply involved in a genuine love story with the owner of a carwash, Andrea. But Desiderio is unaware that his beloved is about to get married to a waitress named Maria!
 


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A Journey Called Love
Directed by :
Michele Placido
Cast : Laura Morante

Nora is a cultured woman in her forties, charming and independent. Her life is marked by a long sequence of sentimental relationships as intense as they are brief up to the moment when young Dino Campana - the greatest poet of the period – rises arrogantly pushing all others into the background.
 


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The Right Distance (La Giusta Distanza)
Directed by :
Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast : Giovanni Capovilla, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giuseppe Battiston, Valentina Lodovini, Ahmed Hafiene, Ivano Marescotti, Roberto Abbiati, Stefano Scandaletti, Natalino Balasso

In a remote patch of Italy at the mouth of the River Po, there is a small town. The encounter between Hassan and Mara is drawn over this empty scenario. Yet Hassan isn’t the only one attracted by Mara. Life is more contorted and painful than it appears…
 


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THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM (II MATTINO HA L’ORO IN BOCCA )
Directed by :
Francesco Patierno
Cast : Elio Germano, Laura Chiatti, Martina Stella, Carlo Monni, Gerardo Amato, Corrado Fortuna, Donato Placido, Umberto Orsini, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Dario Vergassola, Fiorenza Pieri, Grazia Schiavo

Marco is a young up-and-coming, but basically unsatisfied, disc jockey. Up until the day he walks into a betting shop and finds out that that’s the kind of thrill he had been seeking. Loosely based on Marco Baldini’s novel “The Gambler”.
 


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One Out of Two
Directed by :
Eugenio Cappuccio
Cast : Fabio Volo, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, Paola Rota, Agostina Belli, Ninetto Davoli, Tresy Taddei, Maurizio Pompella

Everything Lorenzo owns he has earned with great determination and without looking back. Yet suddenly he is faced with his own sickness. As Life looms over death, it is then that Lorenzo will really discover his strength and understand he needs to go far and find something really meaningful.
 


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BREAD AND TULIPS (PANE E TULIPANI)
Directed by :
Silvio Soldini
Cast : Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania, Felice Andreasi, Tatiana Lepore, Daniela Piperno, Manrico Gammarota, Vitalba Andrea, Fausto Russo Alesi

During a coach tour, Rosalba, a forty-year-old housewife, is "forgotten" and left behind in a motorway service area. This unexpected event triggers a strong desire within Rosalba's soul: she wants to escape from everyday routine and decides.
 


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The Feast (L’Abbuffata)
Directed by :
Mimmo Calopresti
Cast : Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Gérard Depardieu, Donatella Finocchiaro, Paolo Briguglia, Nino Frassica, Lucia Ragni

Gabriele, Marco and Nicola are three youngsters who would like to shoot a movie. They decide to travel to Rome and end up meeting Amelie, a French girl whose fiancé actually turns out to be Gerard Depardieu, the renowned French actor... Could this be the turning point for them?
 


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Miss F (Signorina Effe)
Directed by :
Wilma Labate
Cast : Valeria Solarino, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Fausto Paravidino, Giorgio Colangeli, Sabrina Impacciatore, Gaetano Bruno

Every family has its hopeful winner. The Martanos, a working class family from Southern Italy relocated to Turin, have Emma. However, it is a difficult task to find one’s own destiny when the surrounding world is in turmoil. In just a few days time, Emma will tragically endure the most important experience of her life.
 


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LL DIVO
Directed by :
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast : Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Giulio Bosetti, Paolo Graziosi, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Giorgio Colangeli, Alberto Cracco, Lorenzo Gioielli, Gianfelice Imparato, Massimo Popolizio, Aldo Ralli, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Fanny Ardant

In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there’s one man who isn’t sleeping. It’s Giulio Andreotti, the synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. Now things have changed, but is it just an illusion?
 


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DESERT ROSES (LE ROSE DEL DESERTO)
Directed by :
Mario Monicelli
Cast : Michele Placido, Alessandro Haber, Giorgio Pasotti, Fulvio Falzarano, Moran Atias, Tatti Sanguineti

In the infinite Libyan desert, a medical unit set up camp in a remote outpost where they have been stationed. The occupying soldiers turn to healing the local children, surrendering to the inaccessible and irresistible beauty of their young women, as Catholics and Allah’s followers join together in prayer and solidarity. From the novel “Il Deserto della Libia” by Mario Tobino.
 


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Before You Know it (Basta un Niente)
Directed by :
Ivan Polidoro
Cast : Gianfelice Imparato, Gianni Ferreri, Mimmo Esposito, Lorenza Indovina, Roberto De Francesco, David Coco, Armando Pugliese, Antonio Manzini, Milena Mancini, Gigio Morra

For Ivo, Rosario and Peppe, days go by between work, family problems and daily life. But on the night of a full moon, in the cemetery, the three of them witness a mysterious and ghastly scene. From then on the quiet tranquility of the small town will be tarnished.
 


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A Whole Life Ahead (Tutta la Vita Davanti)
Directed by :
Paolo Virzì
Cast : Isabella Ragonese, Sabrina Ferilli, Elio Germano, Valerio Mastandrea, Massimo Ghini, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti

Marta has just graduated from University. After going on several job interviews, she finds work as a telephone operator at a call center and ventures into a world of young telephone operators and mad salesmen, company jingles, prize-giving, cheering and arranged punishments.
 


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The Second Wedding Night
Directed by :
Pupi Avati
Cast : Antonio Albanese, Neri Marcorè, Katia Ricciarelli, Angela Luce, Manuela Morabito, Tony Santagata, Robert Madison, Marisa Merlini

In Italy, at the end of the 2nd World War, Liliana is forced to leave her hometown in Bologna, along with her son Nino because of severe financial hardships. They move to Puglia, to live in her brother-in-law Giordano’s farmhouse. That’s where all the conflicts begin…
 


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Caravaggio
Directed by :
Angelo Longoni
Cast : Alessio Boni, Paolo Briguglia, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jordi Mollà, Claire Kleim, Benjamin Sadler, Paolo Giovannucci

Michelangelo “Michele” Merisi, cursed with a violent temper, becomes as well known for his brawling as for his art. Eventually, his art creates a fervent group of admirers, while his personal life establishes an equally dedicated battery of enemies.
 
   
   

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PROGRAM
 
 
 
 

Format
 
  Friday, June 5
(Opening Night)		 19.30 13 AT A TABLE 35mm.  
  Saturday, June 6 11:00 MATER NATURA 2005 DVD  
    13:00 DAYS AND CLOUDS DVD  
    15:25 DESERT ROSES 35mm.  
    17:35 IL DIVO 35mm.  
    20:00 A WHOLE LIFE AHEAD DVD  
    22:20 CARAVAGGIO DVD  
  Sunday, June 7 11:00 THE BEST DAY 35mm.  
    13:00 IL MATTINO HA L'ORO IN BOCCA 35mm.  
    15:10 BREAD AND TULIPS 35mm.  
    17:35 BEFORE YOU KNOW IT DVD  
    19:30 SALTY AIR 35mm.  
    21:30 THE FEAST DVD  
  Monday, June 8 11:00 A JOURNEY CALLED LOVE DVD  
    13:05 ONE OF TWO DVD  
    15:15 THE RIGHT DISTANCE 35mm.  
    17:30 13 AT A TABLE 35mm.  
    19:45 MS. F 35mm.  
    21:50 THE SECOND WEDDING NIGHT DVD  
  Tuesday, June 9 11:00 IL MATTINO HA L'ORO IN BOCCA 35mm.  
    13:10 CARAVAGGIO DVD  
    15:45 THE FAMILY FRIEND 35mm.  
    18:00 MATER NATURA 2005 DVD  
    20:00 THE BEST DAY 35mm.  
    22:00 A WHOLE LIFE AHEAD DVD  
  Wednesday, June 10 11:00 THE RIGHT DISTANCE 35mm.  
    13:15 MS. F 35mm.  
    15:20 SALTY AIR 35mm.  
    17:20 A JOURNEY CALLED LOVE DVD  
    19:25 IL DIVO 35mm.  
    21:45 BEFORE YOU KNOW IT DVD  
   

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FORMAT
Movies in 35 mm format :

Length(Mins.)

Screening(s)
- 13 At a Table 104 2
 - Bread and Tulips 115 1
 - Desert Roses 102 1
 - Il Divo 110 2
 - ll mattino ha l'oro in bocca ( The Early Bird Catches the Worm ) 100 2
 - Miss F 95 2
 - Salty Air 87 2
 - The Best Day 90 2
 - The Family Friend 110 1
 - The Right Distance 106 2
Movies in DVD format:

Length(Mins.)

Screening(s)
 - A Journey Called Love 96 2
 - A Whole Life Ahead 117 2
 - Before You Know it 85 2
 - Caravaggio 130 2
 - Days and Clouds 116 1
 - Mater Natura 2005 93 2
 - One Out of Two 100 1
 - The Feast 102 1
 - The Second Wedding Night 103 1
   

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