with Italians in DC
Cineforum 2013
Nicola, a small industrialist in his 40s, owns a factory in Turin, which he inherited from his father. This factory is on the brink of closing down due to the hard economic crisis hitting the country. However, he is stubborn and determined to do all he can to keep his factory going, and under his control. While struggling with banks and investors, he must also face tensions among his employees, who are worried for their future. He is deeply in love with his wife Laura, as she is with him, but their relationship is cracking under the pressure of the tension caused by the business crisis. Suspects and misunderstandings make things more and more complicated, up to a point when the wheel of fortune turns for Nicola and all his problems seem to be sorted out: his factory, his marriage, his social status. But are they?
On the background of a sharply divided social environment, where the gap between rich and poor become more and more blatant every day, the character of Nicola develops in an unexpected but logically consistent way, while he crawls entangled in a complicated net of personal and business relationships, on which social unfairness weighs heavily in.
Montaldo builds his dostoevskyan apologue using mostly black and white and conjuring up a city landscape whose elegance and beauty greatly contribute to create the suspended tension gnawing off the souls of the characters. Turin has never been so beautiful and intimately dangerous.
Italy 2011, 94 min.
Directed by Giuliano Montaldo
Film in Italian with English subtitles
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Cineforum movie series is presented in collaboration with Italians in DC
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
THE DIRECTOR
Giuliano Montaldo. – Italian film director (born in Genoa in 1930). After a few experiences as an actor, he made his debut as a director with Tiro al piccione (Pigeon Shoot, 1961). A skillful professional, sustained by a strong culture, he alternated cinema as a social commitment with cinema as entertainment, ranging from adventurous plots – Ad ogni costo (Grand Slam),1967; Gli intoccabili (Machine Gun McCain), 1969 – to historical reconstructions – Gott mit Uns/ Dio è con noi (Fifth Day of Peace)1969; Sacco e Vanzetti, 1970; the tv drama Marco Polo, 1982, and to transpositions of postwar Italian novels into film – Gli occhiali d’oro (The gold rimmed glasses) 1987; Tempo di uccidere (Time to kill), 1989. In his movies he has also dealt with characters and crucial moments of Italian history: as in Giordano Bruno, 1973; I demoni di S. Pietroburgo (Demons of St. Petersburg), 2008, dedicated to F. Dostoevskij; the documentary L’oro di Cuba (Cuba’s gold), 2009; L’industriale (The industrial), 2011. Passionate about opera, Montaldo also directed Turandot, 1983; Il pipistrello (The Bat), 1984; La bohème, 1994; Otello, 1994; Il flauto magico (The magic Flute), 1995; Nabucco, 1997; Un ballo in maschera (A masked ball),1998. In 2007 he was awarded with the special David di Donatello’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 M. Spagnoli shot a documentary on Montaldo’s life, Quattro volte venti anni (Four times twenty years), presented on the same year at the Rome International Film Festival.
(translated from Enciclopedia Treccani online )
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