With Federico Fellini movie Roma opened Splendid Garden’s Italian Film Summer / Day
In cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Riga, this summer in specialty Splendid Garden Open -air cinema evenings will be delighted by audiences of Italian film classics and contemporary masters – Rome, marriage to Italian taste, partenope and There will still be tomorrow. Film enjoyment in the cinema yard will be complemented by Italian inspired delicacies from Wine studio Splendid.
« Celebrating Latvia’s summer, this year’s open -air screenings will be offered in the masterpieces of Italian film history and the brightest films of Italian films, confirming the temptation of Italian cinema, temperament, sparkling humor and the inheritance of cinematographic traditions, » says Splendid Palace Artistic director Daira Āboliņa.
Splendid Garden Summer repertoire:
Rome (1972). The film of the classic Federico Fellini (1943-1993) is both a reference to the director’s mother’s native city, and to the memory of the director’s youth of the city where the Italian soul is encoded.
Young guy from the province (Federico Fellini alter ego) entering a huge traffic jam up when arriving in Rome. Time stops for a moment to get to know the characters in the film’s characters. Fellins allow them to be seen both friendly and sexually attractive, as well as with a nostalgic feeling of retrospective. In a movie that resembles a travel description and author’s memoirs, the young man tries to understand why Rome is called the eternal city. It is a Rome that includes rhyme from the Mussolini era. It is a feeling of fellini’s youth city. The big Italian families are a value, but there are too many neighbors in the apartments and too many opinions on how to maintain order and what to eat for lunch. The carnival of human passions and the celebrations of life that never end.
Rome is one of the peaks of the creative work of Federico Fellini. The film not only reveals the urban pulse in the city, but also includes documentary episodes in the message showing director Fellini himself on the filming area. A special episode is dedicated to actress Anna Manjani, a bright personality of the Golden Age of Italian cinema. The movie was nominated Oscar.
Marriage in Italian taste (1964). The main fascination of the classic Vitorio de Sika (1902-1974) is Marcello Mastrojan, two legendary Italian actors, and Sophia Lorena.
The shopkeeper Domeniko Soriano has maintained a relationship with the Local Joy Home Beauty Filumen for twenty -two years. At the time, when his circumstances were forced to meet the handsome Domeniko, Filumen was only 17 years old and had many clients. Filumen had to use a variety of women’s tricks so that the chosen man could not be married. Over the years, she had three sons and Filumen married Domeniko to establish a large Italian family. She knew that only one of her child was Domeniko, her fateful man. During the cohabitation of spouses, there is a passionate that is not short of sympathy and passion, or denial, but the main goal of a woman’s life is to take care of the future of their three children…
The film is both romantic and satirical at the same time. The appearance of Sophia Loren on the screen is effective in the collection, which highlights the special feature of this film – a woman’s course and posture, and close -up, because her face can express sadness, care, happiness and joy, and all of this can change in seconds. Feminine pride and sexy love, despite the fact that the role of a woman in the family in the seventies in Italy was to give birth to children and delight her man. Marcello Matrojani enjoys Sofia Lorena’s art, keeping a comic note and looks great, which is the most important this time.
The film was raised for two Oscar For nominations, both the best foreign film of the year and Sofia Loren’s best actress.
Partenope (2024). The most famous Italian director Paolo Sorrentino was included in the main program of the Cannes Film Festival, but in January this year Splendid Palace A new festival was opened with this movie Leo. Bear. Branch.
A little girl, her godfather, the mayor of Naples, is named in the name of a siren that has turned the city into a glamorous citadel. The Divine Portenope is destined to embody the irresistible, crazy, vital charm of youth. She is like a mirage, memories of once experienced joys and tragedies. Partenope is a alive reflection of an unreservative past in the city whose graceful silhouette and indescribable beauty are most vividly revealed from the luxurious villa on Capri on the island.
The film attracts with the sophisticated camera work, the clear light and the visual solution of the film, with the director in collaboration with the Senloran Fashion House. Director Paollo Sorrentino continues his film research on youth and beauty. The film’s director is able to combine the myth with reality in this story. The party portrays two actresses in the film – model Chelesta Dalla Port and Italian well -known film actress Stephanie Sandrelli. Also, the British actor Gary Oldman plays a significant role in the film, playing the role of American writer John Chiver.
There will still be tomorrow (2023). Paola Cortelles, a major role that has repeatedly received the best actress award Silver ribbon In Italy but with a movie There will still be tomorrow She made her debut in the film director.
The film takes place in Rome, 1946. The city is gradually recovering from World War II damage, including injuries to human souls. Delija is married to Ivano, who beats him and humiliates for every household detail. She, as an obedient wife, does all the homework, takes care of their children and earns the land in paid jobs. The only joy in Delia’s life is friendship with the witty and optimistic Maris and moments of communication with the love of youth of the car mechanic Nino. Young women turn everything into a mysterious letter. Delija decides to change her life, become free and happy, but will she succeed?
The film is made in Italian classics in film tradition – in the style of neurealism, modernizing it and stylizing reality. By maintaining a closer to the reality of the post -war Italian life, the director is at the same time impressed by innovative choreographic dramatic solutions and musical instructions. The film in Pār paraphrases the famous classical directors of Italian cinema, preserving the best, namely the vitality, charisma and power of cinema images. The film has received several awards and ranked among the most popular films in Italy of all time.
Closest Splendid Garden sessions:
- 4 June Marriage in Italian taste,
- 5 There will still be tomorrow,
- 11. June Rome,
- 18 June Partenope.
