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Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà Present Open Roads New Italian Cinema June 6–12 Tickets: filmlinc.org Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year’s Piranhas edition again strikes a Opening Night balance between emerging Claudio Giovannesi, Italy, 2019, 112m talents and esteemed Claudio Giovannesi (Fiore) returns to Open Roads with this singular veterans, commercial coming-of-age story that won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at and independent fare, the Berlin Film Festival. Newcomer Francesco Di Napoli stars as outrageous comedies, 15-year-old Nicola, who leads a pack of cocksure hellions captivated gripping dramas, and by the lifestyle of the local Camorra as they descend into the violent, par- captivating documentaries, anoid world of Naples’s dominant crime group. Based on the novel by with in-person Roberto Saviano, who co-wrote the screenplay and mined similar ter- appearances by many of ritory in his devastating Gomorrah, Piranhas is a haunting reflection on the filmmakers. doomed adolescence. A Music Box Films release. Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Thursday, June 6 6:00pm Organized by Florence Almozini Q&A with Claudio Giovannesi and Dan Sullivan, Film at Lincoln Wednesday, June 12 9:15pm Center; and by Carla Cattani, Griselda Guerrasio, and Monique Catalino, Istituto Luce Cinecittà. #filmlinc Capri-Revolution La Commare Secca Mario Martone, France/Italy, 2018, Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1962, 122m 35mm, 88m The stirring period drama from vet- Bernardo Bertolucci made an aus- eran director Mario Martone centers picious filmmaking debut at 21 on Lucia (Marianna Fontana), a young with this savvy, meticulous murder goatherd living on Capri in 1914, mystery adapted from a short story when Europe is on the precipice of by Pier Paolo Pasolini. When the World War I. Also on the island is a corpse of a prostitute is discov- commune of free-spirited, politically ered near a public park, the police radical Northern European artists attempt to reconstruct the story of and intellectuals who have retreated the woman’s death from the recol- to the lush Mediterranean idyll to put lections of standersby brought in for their fledgling ideologies into prac- questioning, presented in flashback tice. Chafing at the traditions of her sequences. This formally audacious native community, Lucia finds her- meditation on memory, contingency, self drawn to the commune and its and the elusive implications of “real- idealistic leader—but soon she must ism” marks a fitting introduction to reckon with the vast tides of cultural the Italian master, who passed away and political change. in November at the age of 77. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Sunday, June 9 6:00pm Q&A with Mario Martone and Tuesday, June 11 6:00pm screenwriter Ippolita Di Majo Tickets: filmlinc.org Dafne The Disappearance of My Mother North American Premiere Federico Bondi, Italy, 2019, 94m Beniamino Barrese, Italy, 2019, 94m Dafne (Carolina Raspanti), a young In his directorial debut, cinematog- woman with Down syndrome, leads rapher Beniamino Barrese weaves a quiet family life that is upended by together new and archival footage the sudden death of her mother. Both spanning decades and continents Dafne and her father, Luigi (Antonio to craft an intimate, vignette-like Piovanelli), struggle to support each documentary portrait of his mother, other as they differently process this the renowned Italian model, activ- loss: Luigi withdraws into depres- ist, and feminist educator Benedetta sion, while Dafne gravitates toward Barzini. Taking this formidable woman greater responsibility at work and at as its protagonist, the film adopts home. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize an inquisitive stance, delving into in this year’s Berlin Film Festival her personal and professional his- Panorama section, Federico Bondi’s tory and probing her present-day understated sophomore feature re- reality with a son’s affectionate per- orients their mourning into a tender sistence, and ultimately opens up story of perseverance, awash in rich into an exploration of such vast and everyday detail and anchored by timeless themes as beauty, woman- a magnetic breakout performance hood, aging, and image-making, by Raspanti. while simultaneously engaging in deeply personal contemplation of Friday, June 7 3:30pm the relationship between a mother Q&A with Federico Bondi and her son, and between an art- ist and his subject. A Kino Lorber release in association with Breaker. Monday, June 10 6:00pm Q&A with Beniamino Barrese and Benedetta Barzini #filmlinc Photo by Andrea Pirrello Euforia If Life Gives You Lemons Valeria Golino, Italy, 2018, 120m Ciro D’Emilio, Italy, 2018, 88m Acclaimed leading men Riccardo Abandoned by his father and left Scamarcio and Valerio Mastandrea alone to care for his mentally ill play Matteo and Ettore, two adult mother, 17-year-old high-school brothers living drastically differ- dropout Antonio (Giampiero De ent lives, in actor-director Valeria Concilio) has had to grow up fast, Golino’s quietly wrenching new navigating the complexities of the drama. When Ettore, a public-school adult world while trying to hold onto teacher and father of modest means, what’s left of a normal teenage life. is diagnosed with an illness, he goes When he’s scouted by a professional to stay with cosmopolitan Matteo in soccer team, it seems like the break his sprawling Roman bachelor pad, he’s been waiting for—but a series of and Matteo takes charge of over- calamitous personal crises threaten seeing his brother’s medical care. to derail his dreams. Anchored by a Between appointments with doctors compelling lead performance from and visits from Ettore’s wife (Isabella its up-and-coming star, this achingly Ferrari) and his mistress (Jasmine naturalistic coming-of-age drama Trinca), the brothers reckon with vividly evokes the world of a young long-unresolved tensions and un- man striving to succeed in the face of spoken resentments, and face the overwhelming odds. implications of Ettore’s failing health, against the thrumming backdrop of Saturday, June 8 3:30pm the sunny Roman cityscape. Q&A with Ciro D’Emilio Saturday, June 8 6:00pm Q&A with Valerio Mastandrea Wednesday, June 12 2:00pm Tickets: filmlinc.org Photo by Gianni Fiorito Laughing Loro North American Premiere Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France, Valerio Mastandrea, Italy, 2018, 2018, 150m 90m The Oscar-winning director of The After a young man dies in a contro- Great Beauty returns with a satiri- versial workplace accident, those cal reimagining of the fall of Silvio who loved him grapple with what Berlusconi (Toni Servillo). Loro offers it means to go on living: his widow, ample sex and drugs as it follows seemingly unable to cry, questions Sergio Morra (Riccardo Scamarcio), why she feels so numb; his son sub- a power-hungry talent scout who limates the trauma by rigorously installs himself in a villa next door preparing for the media frenzy that to Berlusconi with a troupe of young will accompany the funeral; his escorts. But the debauchery stands father, haunted by his inability to in pointed contrast to the prime min- prevent the tragedy, wrestles with ister’s slow decline. Despite Morra’s survivor’s guilt. Punctuated by dis- determination to coax his neighbor arming humor and flashes of poetic to one of his ragers, Berlusconi realism, the feature debut from is dealing with a quieter range of acclaimed actor Valerio Mastandrea chamber dramas: a long-suffering is a powerfully cathartic exploration wife who doesn’t believe in his limp of the myriad ways we grieve, cope, vows of fidelity, a son with whom and find hope in the face of loss. he’s trying to bond, and a mounting sense of helplessness and apathy as Saturday, June 8 1:00pm he feels power slipping through his Q&A with Valerio Mastandrea fingers. An IFC Films release. and actress Chiara Martegiani Saturday, June 8 9:00pm Tuesday, June 11 8:00pm #filmlinc Photo by Paolo Ciriello Lucia’s Grace Magical Nights Gianni Zanasi, Italy/Greece/Spain, North American Premiere 2018, 110m Paolo Virzì, Italy, 2018, 125m Alba Rohrwacher (I Am Love, Happy The latest from maestro Paolo as Lazzaro) stars as a land surveyor Virzì (Human Capital) is a sparkling and single mother whose compas- murder mystery and film-industry sion is tested when she learns that satire set in the early 1990s, the tail her new building project threatens end of Italian cinema’s golden age, the environmental safety of the city. when neorealism and commedia While she is torn between her deci- all’italiana gave way to a culture of sion to speak up or keep her job, excess, greed, and artistic stagna- a mysterious woman enters Lucia’s tion. When a famous film producer already chaotic life and proposes is found dead in the Tiber River, sus- she build a church on the site. Lucia’s picion falls on three young screen- Grace, which was the Closing Night writers who, when they are hauled selection of the 2018 Cannes Direc- in for questioning, recount their tors’ Fortnight, is a pleasantly orig- wild adventures navigating Rome’s inal comedy about faith and accep- declining film industry. Studded tance in the modern world, and a with winking references to Italian showcase of Rohrwacher’s emotional cinema legends, Magical Nights is range and flair for physical comedy. Virzì’s loving yet irreverent glance back to the not-so-good old days. Monday, June 10 3:30pm Wednesday, June 12 7:00pm Sunday, June 9 12:45pm Wednesday, June 12 4:30pm Tickets: filmlinc.org Normal Ricordi? North American Premiere North American Premiere Adele Tulli, Italy, 2019, 67m Valerio Mieli, Italy/France, 2018, 106m Atmospheric vignettes in such strik- ing settings as a doctor’s office, a toy Nine years after his debut feature, factory, and a dirt-bike rally build Ten Winters, played in Open Roads, off of one another in Adele Tulli’s Valerio Mieli returns with an evoc- stylized documentary, which reck- ative romance about an unnamed, ons with the ever-changing norms archetypal couple (Luca Marinelli around gender identity.