FILM: KRYPTONITE! (2011 | Drama, Comedy)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema all’Istituto: Commedia all’italiana KRYPTONITE! Year: 2011 Duration: 98 min Director: Ivan Cotroneo Cast: Valeria Golino, Cristiana Capotondi, Luca Zingaretti, Libero De Rienzo Genre: Drammatico, Commedia 7-year-old Peppino lives in Naples and is part of funny, colorful, dysfunctional family. It’s 1973, and when Peppino’s parents have a crisis, he is cared […]
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FILM: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (2011 | Drama)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema at the Institute: Retrospective Paolo Sorrentino THIS MUST BE THE PLACE Year: 2011 Duration: 120 min Director: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Sean Penn, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon Genre: Drama Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses ‘Goth’ and lives in Dublin off his […]
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FILM: THE HUMAN CAPITAL (2013 | Drama, Thriller)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema at the Institute: Commedia all’italiana THE HUMAN CAPITAL Year: 2013 Duration: 109 min Director: Paolo Virzi Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni Genre: Drama, Thriller A cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the […]
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A biennale of the global North: Venice 2017
A Panel Discussion with Prof. Parul Dave Mukherji e Prof. Shukla Vinayak Sawant Moderator: Premjish We will discuss the current Venice Biennale through the prism of ‘global south’ to explore its curatorial strategies. While many books and articles have appeared to trace the emerging cultural politics of the global south, from the Havana Biennale […]
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FILM: PEOPLE WHO ARE WELL (2014 | Comedy)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema at the Institute: Commedia all’italiana PEOPLE WHO ARE WELL Anno: 2014 Durata: 105 min Regista: Francesco Patierno Cast: Claudio Bisio, Margherita Buy, Diego Abatantuono, Jennipher Rodriguez Genre: Comedy Umberto Maria Dorloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He’s got it all, except […]
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FILM: Double Bill: Retrospective Paolo Sorrentino: THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (2003 | Drama)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema at the Institute: Retrospective Paolo Sorrentino THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE Year: 2003 Duration: 100 min Director: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini Genre: Drammatico Titta di Girolamo has spent eight years living alone, not working. His only vices are cigarettes and hanging around in bars, he […]
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FILM: Double Bill: Retrospective Paolo Sorrentino: ONE MAN UP (2001 | Drama)
Incontri In Biblioteca: Cinema at the Institute: Retrospective Paolo Sorrentino ONE MAN UP Year: 2001 Duration: 100 min Director: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Andrea Renzi, Toni Servillo, Ninni Bruschetta Genre: Drama Evocatively set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead entirely separate yet strangely parallel […]
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EXHIBITION: A preview to desolation – Curated by Premjish
A Preview to Desolation – Curated by Premjish “Don’t start with the good old days, but the bad new ones.” – (Bertolt Brecht). The bad new days are our times, our last few decades, which are characterized by an unstable existence and precariousness caused by an unprecedented economic, political and social turbulence. A state of emergency […]
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FILM: The Fifth Wheel – Comedy | 2013
Cinema at the Institute: Commedia all’italiana THE FIFTH WHEEL Director: Giovanni Veronesi Year: 2013 | Duration: 113 min Cast: Elio Germano, Ricky Memphis, Alessandra Mastronardi, Virginia Raffaele In Italian with subtitles in English Ernesto is a simple man who tries to pursue his own ambitions without losing sight of the real values in life. Upholsterer, […]
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DOUBLE BILL: Conversations around Gender & Sexuality
The Italian Embassy Culture Centre invites you for viewing two gripping performances reflecting on gender politics and sexuality. The first performance of the evening ‘TUJHE BANAYA GAYA HAI MERE LIYE’ (You have been created for me) captures varied gender equations, the society’s innate permissiveness towards the quintessential ‘chedkhani’ or eve-teasing and how this collective tolerance […]
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