TRIBUTE TO FEDERICO FELLINI (photography exhibition + retrospective)

TRIBUTE TO FEDERICO FELLINI (photography exhibition + retrospective)

By the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Cinecitta Luce and Cinemazero (Pordenone)

On the occasion of 20 years since Federico Fellinis death, the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Cinecittà Luce and Cinemazero (Pordenone) organise a tribute to the great cineaste. The tribute will include:

  • a retrospective with some of his most famous films
  • and a photo-exhibition with the parallel screening of a documentary for “8 ½”

Some of Fellini’s masterpieces (La Dolce vita, I vitelloni, Lo sceicco bianco, Roma, Ginger e Fred, I Clowns, Giulietta degli spiriti and Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio) are a simple act of commemoration of a director that heard his inner voice, created a new way of creative expression and finally gave birth to a cinema full of poems, fantasies and tales.

The retrospective is going to take place at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, from the 18th to the 24th of November 2013 and it is going to be officially opened on Monday 18th of November 2013 at MCF’s Theatre (20:00) by the film-critic and journalist Giannis Zoumpoulakis and the co-founder of Cinemazero Andrea Crozzoli. The first film that is going to be projected is “ROME” and it will have free admission.

In parallel, from the 13th to the 24th of November 2013, a photo-exhibition is going to take place at MCF about Fellini’s moments at the backstage of his creations. The exhibition has the title “8 ½: Fellini’s Journey” and its 96 photographs that are going to be exhibited were taken by the photographic lens of Gideon Bachmann, Fellini’s close friend, and they are provided by Pordenone’s Cinemazero Images.

GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI
(Italy, France 1965 / 137΄)

Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masino, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu,
Valentina Cortese, Caterina Boratto, Lou Gilbert, Sylva Koscina
Music: Nino Rota, Eugene Walter

Language: Italian. Subtitles: English.

Giulietta Boldrini is a wealthy and happy lady of Rome’s high society. She has a catholic education and she is firmly attached to his grandfather, who ran away with a dancer.

While being with her husband at their cottage, they organise a party with some friends for celebrating their marriage anniversary. But Giulietta feels that her husband cheats on her, her marriage dies and she has no one to confess her feelings. She hopes in a supernatural force and she participates in rituals with an Indian psychic. By following her mother’s advice, Giulietta decides to follow her husband and she discovers that her doubts were reasonable.

Awards:

1966 – David di Donatello Best Actress for Giulietta Masina

1966 – Golden Globe Best Foreign Film

1967 – Kansas City Critics Circle Awards Best Director for Federico Fellini }