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DI ME COSA NE SAI - WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME
Italy - 2009, 79’, 35mm, colour - World Premiere
directed by Valerio Jalongo
screenplay Valerio Jalongo, Giulio Manfredonia, Felice Farina
editing Mirco Garrone
production
Cinecittà Luce
via Tuscolana 1055, 00173 Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 06722861 - Fax +39 067221883
www.luce.it - www.cinecitta.com
Ameuropa International
world sales Cinecittà Luce
press office
Maria Antonietta Curione
Tel: +39 06 72286408 Cell: +39 348 5811510
m.curione@luce.it
synopsis
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
“Would “Salò” be possible today?” The words do not come from a nostalgic revisionist, but from Bernardo Bertolucci. It is a rhetorical question, which Valerio Jalongo knows all too well. The images of the last masterpiece by Pasolini, wonderful and atrocious, open this 80-minutes critical chronicle of the cultural of the image in Italy, through the grotesque adventures of director Felice Farina, an idealistic and nihilistic Don Quixote. This is a powerful documentary on art and politics, of images and information, interviews and off-camera deductions, and TV and cinema, which in 1949 filled a square in protest and now “only” a theatre. And of Fellini who fights Berlusconi, backed by a young Walter Veltroni and the Communist Party, with the slogan “A story should not be broken, an emotion must not be interrupted.” We were better off when we were worse off. Or perhaps we ourselves were only better.
Boris Sollazzo
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| 06/09/2009 - 17:30 hours |
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DI ME COSA NE SAI
Sala Perla 2
Tickets, All accreditations
Followed by Q&A
Preceded by TEAT BEAT OF SEX - HAIR |
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trailer
PB_Dimecosanesai_ITA.pdf |
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