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WINTER/SPRING 2008
La stella che non c’é (2006) by Gianni Amelio – Italian with English subtitles
Friday, February 15, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Vincenzo, the maintenance manager of a steel mill in Bagnoli, is charged with the responsibility of shutting down the plant and selling the molten metal to the Chinese. When things are just wrapping up, Vincenzo realizes that the Chinese were sold a defective machine, which years earlier had caused the death of a worker. Having discovered a way to fix to machine, Vincenzo leaves for China where accompanied by an interpreter, Liu Hua, he will try to track down the plant and fix the machine...
Based on the novel "La Dismissione" by Ermanno Rea
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Tai Ling
Cost: $2 donation, ICC member free
Anche libero va bene (2006) by Kim Rossi Stewart – Italian with English subtitles
Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
11-year-old Tommy, his older sister Viola and their father Renato have formed a strangely united family since the most important woman in their life, the mother of the two children and Renato's wife abandoned them. Despite all, this family, so full of fury, failings and inconsolable loneliness, keeps going, thanks to their abiding concern for others and their love.
Starring: Alessandro Morace, Barbora Bobulova, Kim Rossi Stuart
Cost: $2 donation, ICC members free
Perduto Amor (2003) By Franco Battiato – Italian with English subtitles
Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
The story of the growth of a young Sicilian boy, Ettore Corvaja, spanning from the middle of the '50s to the mid '60s, basically split into three parts. The first section starts at the end of the Sanremo Festival in 1955, when Ettore is 8-9 years old, when his life is divided between the joy of being his age in those times and the time of learning about the aristocratic culture of his country. The second part is about the period of the economic boom, when Ettore is 20 years old. The third section finds the young man in Milan, when he enters into the world of music and becomes part of a esoteric group of musicians. But he is nurturing his dream of becoming a writer.
Starring: Corrado Fortuna, Donatella finocchiaro, Annamaria Gherardi, Lucia Sardo, Ninni Bruschetta
Cost: $2 donation, ICC members free
La destinazione (2000) By Piero sanna – Italian with English subtitles
Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Costantino, a fellow trainee from Sardinia and, over time, the two young men talk about their hometowns. The course ends and Emilio finds that his destination is Colores, a town in the heart of the Barbagia region of Sardinia where his work will consist mostly in patrols and prevention. He finds this part of Sardinia completely different from the coastal areas described to him by Costantino. Colores is a town where the “old ways” are still the “good”, indeed the only way of doing things.
One day a man is killed right in front of his son, Efisio. The little boy recognises his father’s killer; it is Cortes. Emilio and his colleagues are called in to investigate, find Cortes and bring him to justice. Emilio talks to Efisio and finds that they have a lot in common as Emilio’s father is also dead. The carabinieri try to persuade Efisio’s mother that her son should “break ranks” and testify in court and say how he saw Cortes kill his father.
In the meantime, Emilio meets a young woman from the town called Giacomina and after winning over her initial reluctance and suspicions towards him, the stranger in town, they begin a relationship. Cortes is finally captured and brought to trial, but is found not guilty because the jury doubt Efisio’s testimony. Emilio sees all his efforts have come to nothing and becomes very depressed and disillusioned, this state of mind is not helped by the fact that his relationship with Giacomina is coming apart. On Good Friday, Efisio is found hanging in the pig-sty and this tragedy is the final straw for Emilio who realises nothing will ever change in that part of the world and leaves for a new destination.
Starring: Roberto Magnani, Elisabetta Balia, Raffaele Ballore, Sebastiano Brotzu
Cost: $2 donation, ICC members free
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