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The Italian Film Festival The Italian Film Festival is back for the fourth time in Atlanta, bigger and better than ever. In partnership with Georgia State University, eight outstanding Italian films will be presented at the Rialto Center for the Arts from March 29th through April 4th. A new selection dedicated to Italian documentaries and an award-winning presentation of short films titled "Life is Too Short" will join the feature film presentations. Enjoy also our Signature Opening Party and much more, stay tuned and mark your calendars. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy some comedy, some romance and a little bit of drama, all in true Italian style!
March 29th - April 4th
All information and film titles soon available at www.cinemaitaly.com In celebrating our alliance with Georgia State University all screenings will be free and open to the public. Seating will be assigned on a first come first served basis, make sure you are there on time!A fruitful collaboration between Claudio di Persia and Georgia State University made possible for the third year this amazing event of Italian cinematographic art and culture. The momentum has been there, pushed by Richard Keitley's and Leslie Gordon’s positive outlook, concise presentation without pump, and patronage. Essential the choice of the movies by Di Persia, given that this is a selection of hundreds of pictures produced last year, although, if Ciancia had the magic stick, would have matched four comedies to four dramas. Regardless, showing eight different pictures is, nonetheless, a reliable report of Italy's current mood, which is definitively turning French - and that is, quite existentialist. It is not up to us establishing the reasons of such stalwart tendency to self-analysis, but short of Verdone's opening comedy, every other picture featured represented Italy's preoccupations, somberly revisiting the eternal question of the meaning of life, displaying questions of sexual self-identity (in Italy?), and connection to others, or loss of it. It presented an oppressing society with its chaos, callousness, blind politicians, drugs and crass resolutions. This image of Italy is in sharp contrast with the Italy that we, tourists and visitors (all emigrants, willing or not, are too part of such category) depict in our imagination when we imagine ourselves walking through the streets of Roma, looking up at the Sistine Chapel's frescos of Michelangelo, eating at a family-run Osteria, gasping at the stunning view of Positano, or wandering by the spectacular countryside of Tuscany. This new Italy is the Italy that Italians see. Regardless, what we saw at the 2010 Film Festival is the Italy that the directors and writers feel in their hearts, and describe as reality. We offer no conclusions to their tone, only that paradoxically, we (those of us who are clubbed by this battered and tattered American economy) may be the conveyors of optimism. Optimists or not, we certainly look forward to the 2011 Film Festival, and we want to thank Claudio and Richard for so generously and unselfishly enlightening and entertaining us! Bravi!
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