Through the analysis of a hundred films, Jean A. Gili, director of the “Annecy Italian Cinema” festival, traces the entire history of Italian cinema, from comedies to melodramas, from peplums to westerns, from political films to social tragedies. Tuesday, December 20 at 7:30 PM at the Masséna Bookstore.
From the first films by the Lumière operators recorded in the peninsula in 1896 to the new assertions of the present time, Italian cinema has experienced all the vicissitudes of history, shining brightly from the 1910s, accompanying the dark years of fascism, and then the disasters of war up to the reconstruction and the exhilarating years of neorealism, with Rossellini, De Sica, or Visconti.
It then gradually blossomed in a golden age marked by the films of Fellini, Antonioni, Rosi, Petri, Monicelli, Scola, Bertolucci, Bellochio, Moretti… Since the early 2000s, it has regained a level worthy of its prestigious past.
Original talents have emerged – Benigni, Giordana, Crialese, Garrone, Sorrentino… – who have rekindled creativity ready to flourish once more.
