Ettore Scola has been one of the most important Italian directors. Scola’s repertoire is based on the comic and sarcastic Italian comedy and in the ’50s in his own way he traveled the road of this kind without remaining a prisoner. The film “C’eravamo tanto amati”, (1974) is one of his masterpieces, together with Una giornata particolare and Brutti sporchi e cattivi.
The conference is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal in collaboration with the the Société Dante Alighieri of Montreal and the aim is to analyze the characters of the stories, their relationship with history, among one another and with objects around them. The Film “C’eravamo tanto amati” within the title of this film tells us something happened and started in the past and both history and people are main characters. Cinema and history, and their intertwining intended as the history of cinema, are essential to understand the reflection that the director wanted to offer to the Italian public of yesterday and today. What moral considerations, historical and political hide behind this film? how does this film fit in the ’70s background and how does it try to break from the Italian comedy’s style? The invitation is to try to answer these questions together, looking at the past with a critical and conscious look.
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 6pm Free Entrance
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr. Penfield
This event is in Italian.
Paolo Saporito is an Italian post graduate student in Italian Studies at the McGill University, Montreal. His studies focus on contemporary Italian Litterature and Cinema and on their relationship with the historical and political context they derive from.
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