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The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce its participation to the
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From 18 to 28 November 2021, at the Théâtre Monnot, Ashrafieh: |
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The Truth About the Dolce Vita 2020, 83 minutes, Giuseppe Pedersoli, English, followed by a discussion with Hady Zaccak. Based on original and never published before letters, contracts and production paperwork, this docu-drama portrays the real story behind the scenes of the most famous Italian film ever. Around the end of 1958 Federico Fellini was going through a complicated period in his career. He had already won two Oscars for La Strada and Le Notti di Cabiria but nobody wanted to produce his latest project: a story called La Dolce Vita. THURSDAY 18 NOVEMBER AT 20:00 |
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 2021, 93 minutes, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, English, followed by a discussion with Dr May Koussa. In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragic events in what could be Bjorn’s last attempt for him to finally get his life back on track. FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER AT 18:00 |
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Inside the Uffizi 2021, 96 minutes, Corinna Belz and Enrique Sánchez Lansch, with German/Italian/English subtitles, followed by a discussion with Alice Mogabgab. 500 rooms and thousands of daily visitors: the Medici’s treasure chamber containing icons from antiquity to the late Baroque period is a place full of (art) history. It survived two world wars but must now reinvent itself in order to remain an enduring audience magnet. SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER AT 18:00 |
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Tintoretto, the Man who Killed Painting 2019, 96 minutes, Erminio Perocco, English, World Premiere. Video introduction to the film by Erminio Perocco, followed by a discussion with Alice Mogabgab. 500 years ago in Venice, a star was born. Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto began painting at a time when radical social change marked the beginning of the European Reformation. With fast brushstrokes and daring compositions, his paintings captured the complexities and challenges of this new modern age… THURSDAY 25 NOVEMBER AT 20:00 |
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Tickets are on sale for 30,000 L.L. at Monnot theater’s door to the benefit of the Lebanese NGO AFEL, Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais..
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