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AT THE PALAZZO REALE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION “FAMILY ITALIAN STYLE” KICKS OFF

Milan, 1 March 2012. The changes within the Italian family shown through the images which made the history of cinema in our country. Supported by the city of Milan Culture, Fashion and Design and by the Palazzo Reale in collaboration with the Fondazione Milano Famiglie 2012, the exhibition “Family Italian Style”, organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, will be inaugurated at Palazzo Reale, today 1st March 2012, at 18.00 in the presence of S.E. Card. Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan. Giuliano Pisapia Mayor of Milan; Stefano Boeri Councillor for Culture, Fashion, Design; Mons. Dario E. Viganò President Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo; Mons. Erminio De Scalzi President Fondazione Milano Famiglie 2012 will also be present. The film director Gianni Amelio will give a talk.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 2nd March to 1st April 2012, admission is free.

The exhibition “Family Italian Style” proposes itself as an important opportunity to reflect on this institution and the changes it has gone through, and is part of the journey towards the coming VII World Meeting of Families which will take place in Milan from 3 May to 3 June 2012. This exhibition is the first important cultural event which will announce the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the people of Milan.

Over 60 photographic images, by the most important film set photographers of our cinema, which tell the story of the Italian family through the most famous films of our time. From the 1910s to present day, through a chronological path which shows the changes which in the last century have shaken society, hitting also the family, an institution which will be celebrated in Milan on the occasion of the VII World Meeting of Families.

«A winning family changes: it is not a play on words, but a metamorphic and isomorphic kaleidoscope of images, those dedicated from the world of cinema to the family and its unstoppable evolution. – explains Mons. Dario Edoardo

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Viganò, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo –. From Assunta Spina to Old-Fashioned World, from Il cuore grande delle ragazze to Libero - Along the Ridge, the Italian cinema has paid homage to the family for what it really is: a dynamic institution, a gestalt, through which we can show on a scale, the social changes, the imperfections of our anthropological fabric, the existential warp and the relational woof. The history of cinema, family history, to put it briefly, history: “Family Italian Style” is not just a collection of photos, but a picture that brings together the monographs of our lives, our personal experiences. Cinema life, cinema-family».

«The family is the first cell of society, where the first relationships are created, where one sets out to discover the world, where love, which is unwrapped like an unexpected gift, is tested – says Mons. Erminio De Scalzi, President of the Fondazione Milano Famiglie 2012 –. The family is not an abstract entity but a real and contemporary “place” where we are all called to confront ourselves, because we all have family experience. An experience which touches, sometimes almost unconsciously, every part of our lives, even the artistic part, just like what happens in the cinema which has always told stories and shown emotions».

From important films from the silent era to contemporary cinema, giving a 2 extremely full view and above all focusing on the masterpieces which have made our cinema well-known at an international level.

The images show, for example, the dramatic betrayals brought on screen in the cinematic version of Assunta Spina (1915; Gustavo Serena) and the family drama from the nineteenth century in Old-Fashioned World (1941; Mario Soldati). From the misery of the war years where children are forced to lose their innocence (The Bicycle Thief; 1948, by Vittorio De Sica) to a mother’s dream of liberation played by Anna Magnani in Bellissima (1951; Luchino Visconti). An intense view accompanies us in an understanding of a whole generation faced with a world going through deep changes which breaks family ties (The Railroad Man; 1956, by Pietro Germi), then takes us to the comedies of the 1960s which – starting with Divorce Italian Style (1961; again by Germi) – look at the family from an ironic point of view, with its fake conformism and taboos. A complex collection which does not forget to highlight the Italian history, a past which is difficult to ignore (Two Women, 1960, by De Sica; The Four Days of Naples, 1962, by Nanni Loy), the provocative images typical of the cinema in the 1970s (The Murri Affair, 1974, by Mauro Bolognini; An Average Little Man, 1977, by ). Through the photos from the film sets, we reach the heart of the family institution, from being a united and cohesive clan

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despite problems and misunderstandings (from The Family; 1987, by Ettore Scola to Il cuore grande delle ragazze, 2011, by Pupi Avati), to when it is struck by the loss of values, which seems evident in the films from the most recent years (from Don’t Tell, 2005, by Cristina Comencini to Libero - Along the Ridge, 2006, by Kim Rossi Stuart).

FAMILY ITALIAN STYLE 2 March – 1 April 2012

Milan, Palazzo Reale Piazza Duomo, 12 Free entry

Opening hours: Monday 14.30/19.30 Tuesday - Wednesday - Friday - Sunday 9.30/19.30 Thursday - Saturday 9.30/22.30 Last admission half an hour before closing

Press Office - VII World Meeting of Families Tel 02.87213181 │[email protected]; www.family2012.com Francesca Cassani - Cell. 335.8124248 [email protected] 3

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The Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo was founded in 1946 and works within the field of Italian cinema culture. Over the years it has become a leader in Cinema content which it manages for Sole 24 Ore, Matrix, Yahoo, Libero, Libero-Mobile, ComingSoon Television, PreviewNetwork, MTV, ITS Informatica, MSN-Microsoft, Tiscali, Nastro Azzurro, Noverca, Lancia, Filmauro, Monini Cinema, Alitalia.

It carries out activity in traditional and electronic publishing through the web portal www.cinematografo.it, organizes cultural events, international conferences, seminars and festivals (www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org), film previews, often in collaboration with important Italian and overseas partners, among which the 'Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia', Cinecittà Luce Spa, "Cahiers du cinéma", Fondazione Cineteca Italiana of Milan, Museo del Cinema of Turin, Film Commission Torino Piemonte.

It publishes the Rivista del Cinematografo, the longest running Italian cinema periodical.

It runs the website www.cineconomy.com which was founded in 2009 in order to offer its users a comprehensive view of the market and cinema industry in Italy. Through numerous articles on politics and finance from major European newspapers and journals, Cineconomy offers a wide variety of opinion and outlook in its attempt to provide a unitary outline of the situation in Europe.

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Each year it publishes the Report - The Market and the Cinema Industry in Italy which can be downloaded free of charge from the above website.

The Tertio Millennio Film Fest is the first cinema festival organized with the Patronage of the Vatican arriving at its 15th edition and developed by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo presided over by Dario Edoardo Viganò and the "Rivista del Cinematografo" under the same leadership. It is organized in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Culture and Social Communications and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, with contributions from the General Direction for Cinema of the Italian Ministry for Heritage and Cultural Activity.

The President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano has bestowed a representation plate on the 15th edition of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest.

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