Italian Movies for March 2019, PACI Theatre Room
March 22nd 2019, 7pm - 9pm
Venue: PACI (LU's Faculty of Law)
201 Red River Rd.
La tête en Friche (French)
In a film based on Marie-Sabine Roger's book, Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus) is a 95-year-old woman whose greatest joy in life is a good book. So the residents of her rural French village are stunned when she strikes up a conversation with the sweet German oaf Germain (Gérard Depardieu), who is virtually illiterate. But, as their odd friendship blossoms, Margueritte shares her passion with Germain, teaching him as she reads aloud. And when her eyes begin to fail, Germain returns the favor.
The Lives of Others (German)
In 1980s East Germany a dedicated Stasi officer faces conflicting loyalties when he finds himself unexpectedly sympathetic to a couple, the subjects of his espionage.
Contromano (Italian)
Mario Cavallaro wakes up every morning in the same way, in the same house, in the same district in the same city, Milan. He has just turned fifty'years. Mario loves' order, accuracy, timeliness, respect, the decoration, a low voice, staying every one to his place. His life is divided between his shop socks inherited from his father and a vegetable garden, unique passion known, put in feet on the balcony of her home. Any change in the scares, imagine if his old bar is sold to an Egyptian and if in front of his shop arrives Oba, Baldo Senegal seller of socks. Enough is enough and for Mario the solution is simple and neutral at the same time: "put things in place".
Due Partite (Italian)
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.
"The Sea Inside" (Spanish)
The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.