Giovanna Fazzuoli . “Utopia”: the words of art, in the Treccani vocabulary
“Utopia”: the words of art, in the Treccani vocabulary 17.10.2022 18.00-20.00 CO.AS.IT 189 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Free event Registration is mandatory. Please register here https://www.coasit.com.au/settimana-della-lingua-italiana The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, in honour of the return of the XXII Week of the Italian […]
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XXII Week of the Italian Language in the World “Utopia”: the words of art, from the Treccani Vocabulary OCTOBER 17-23 CO.AS.IT 189 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Free event. Registration is mandatory. Please register here https://www.coasit.com.au/settimana-della-lingua-italiana The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, in honour of […]
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Melbourne International Jazz festival 14_23 October 2022 FRANCESCA REMIGI Saturday 15 October, 7:00PM Francesca Remigi is a multi-faceted drummer, improviser and composer from Bergamo, Italy, who has made a name for herself in New York’s avant-garde jazz scene, collaborating with heavyweights including George Garzone, Kris Davis and Steve Lehman. Together with Italian bass clarinettist […]
Read moreYESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original trilogy of risqué romantic comedies set in different parts of Italy, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni starring in each story. The two play lovers in the three vignettes, reuniting on the screen after […]
Read moreTHE GREAT SILENCE
In 1960s Naples, Villa Primic, once a luxurious home, now a creaky mansion straight out of a ghost story. In a painful and reluctant decision, it has been put up for sale by Mrs Rose Primic (Margherita Buy, Three Floors IFF21) and the two heirs to the Primic’s dilapidated fortune, Massimiliano (Emanuele Linfatti) and Adele […]
Read moreNaples, The Heartbeat of Italian Cinema
The Italian Cultural Institute is happy to help bring a selection of films from the New Neapolitan Cinema movement to the attention of the local public. With this expression we usually mean the rich Neapolitan film heritage of the last 30 years, cinema that has won acclaim from the public and critics. A recent example […]
Read moreCasanova’s return
In this new drama from Gabriele Salvatores, the excellent Toni Servillo stars as Leo Bernadi, a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He is approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. The last movie he just finished shooting is inspired by the novel about Casanova by Arthur Schnitzler, a character […]
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NOSTALGIA The excellent Pierfrancesco Favino (PadrenostroIFF21, The Traitor IFF20) stars in suspenseful drama Nostalgia, a bittersweet exploration of the complexity of homecoming. After forty years spent in the Middle East and Africa, businessman Felice Lasco (Favino) returns to his hometown of Rione Sanità in Naples. Visiting his ageing mother, Teresa (Aurora Quattrocchi), he is upset […]
Read moreTHE INNER CAGE
Winner of the 2022 David di Donatello Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor, The Inner Cage is an affecting group character study set within the last remains of an abandoned prison. A 19th century prison, located in a remote and unspecified part of the Italian territory, is being decommissioned. As a result of […]
Read moreTHE KING OF LAUGHTER
Winner of Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2022 Nastri d’Argento Awards, this extravagant biopic depicts the life of the 19th- and early- 20th-century king of Neapolitan comedians, the great actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, masterfully portrayed by Toni Servillo. Devoting his life to the theatre and achieving great success, Scarpetta created works that […]
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