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BOLOGNINI’S FROM A ROMAN BALCONY SPECIAL EVENT AT TERTIO MILLENNIO FILM FEST
11th December 2014 at 4:00pm – Cinema Trevi Roma, vicolo del Puttarello, 25
Entrance is free until seat exhaustion
The unemployment issue was very heavy and felt also in the Sixties. In Italy, even though the economic boom was taking place, according to statistics, there were around 2 million unemployed without counting women (not included in official statistics). The great cinema of the past leads us to a reflection on the contemporary society of the XVIII Tertio Millennio Film Fest that devotes a special event to the projection of From a Roman Balcony. The film directed by Mauro Bolognini and played by Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie, Isabelle Corey, Paolo Stoppa, Rick Battaglia and Valeria Ciangottini, will be projected (with free entrance until seat exhaustion) Thursday 11th December at 4:00pm in the Cinema Trevi di Roma. It will be the starting point of the event conceived and conducted by journalist Dina d’Isa. The debate will move from the social denunciation of the 60’s to linger on current themes like corruption, food fraud, unemployment and prostitution of youngsters via telephone.
Written by Alberto Moravia with Pier Paolo Pasolini, From a Roman Balcony tells the story of the young unemployed, Davide Saraceno who, for one whole day looks for a job in order to support his family. He finds everything but a job. During the course of his day the young man encounters a peer, a young lady, like him unemployed and thus forced to make some money through being a call girl. In addition to unemployment, here is the second social issue: prostitution connected with the telephone; theme which precedes in less suspect times a reality which today is all encompassing. Davide in his search for a job is then employed as a truck driver for an oil industry that makes oil from soap fat. The creator of this successful oil has a lover whom, probably disgusted by his professional immorality, gives herself to Davide who is young, poor and innocent. This is the third social issue, a food fraud against which law seems powerless.
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The Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo (www.entespettacolo.org) has been active on the Italian cinematographic culture scene since 1946. Over the years it has become a leader in Cinema content and with the cinematographic web portal cinematografo.it it runs the cinema sections for the Corriere.it, il Sole 24 Ore, AR-Code, Chili TV, Virgilio-IOL, ComingSoon Television, MTV, ITS Informatica, Tiscali, Lancia Everywhere Mobile, Filmauro, Monini Cinema, Alitalia, AdnKronos, Dire e Dire Giovani le sezioni cinema.
It carries out activities of traditional and electronic publishing, with the web portal www.cinematografo.it, it organizes cultural events, international conferences, seminars and festivals (www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org), film previews and often collaborates with important Italian and foreign partners, such as the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Cinecittà Luce Spa, "Cahiers du cinéma", the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana di Milano, MiBACT, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Film Museum of Turin.
It publishes a daily press release dedicated to the world of cinema which can be consulted free of charge on www.entespettacolo.org/rassegnastampa.
It publishes the magazine «Rivista del Cinematografo», Italy’s longest running film periodical.
It owns the web portal www.cineconomy.com, which was founded in 2009 offering a comprehensive view of the Film Market and Industry in Italy to its users. With articles dealing with politics and finance from leading European newspapers Cineconomy offers a wide range of opinions and points of view, attempting to give a united picture of the European situation. 2
Every year it publishes the Report – The Film Market and Industry in Italy, which can also be downloaded in English free of charge.
The Tertio Millennio Film Fest (www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org), reached its 18th edition in 2014, is the first festival to take place with the Patronage of the Vatican. It is organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and the «Rivista del Cinematografo» under the same leadership. The festival is organized in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Culture and Social Communications, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, Rai Cinema and Cultural project promoted by the Italian Church, in partnership with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and with the support of the Roma Lazio Film Commission with the contribution of the Direction General for Cinema of the Ministry of cultural activities and tourism.
The President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, bestowed a representational plaque on the XVIII year and on the previous years of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest.