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ITALIAN GODDESSES
CLAUDIA CARDINALE IN THE LEOPARD
IL GATTOPARDO
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HISTORICAL DRAMA | ITALY, FRANCE | 1963 | 185 MIN | PG Italian with English subtitles DIRECTOR Luchino Visconti
In The Leopard, Cardinale stars as Angelica Sedara, laying the cornerstones of her career with an opulent classic that recreates the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento –when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes formed a unified, democratic Italy. This 4K restoration of The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale.
GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA IN BUONA SERA, MRS. CAMPBELL
COMEDY, ROMANCE | USA | 1968 | 108 MIN | PG Italian, French with English subtitles, English DIRECTOR Melvin Frank
During World War II, an Italian villager (Italian beauty Gina Lollobrigida in an award-winning role) befriends three US soldiers. Later, unsure which of them fathered her daughter, she accepts support checks from all three. Twenty years on, a reunion unexpectedly brings the three veterans –and their wives and children –back to Italy, and Mrs. Campbell panics as she tries to keep her lively past from her daughter.
SOPHIA LOREN IN MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE
MATRIMONIO ALL'ITALIANA
COMEDY, DRAMA | ITALY, FRANCE | 1964 | 102 MIN | PG Italian with English subtitles DIRECTOR Vittorio De Sica
Italian screen goddess Sophia Loren is one of the most beloved and recognisable figures in the international film world. In Vittorio De Sica’s ode to complicated love, Loren plays Filumena, a penniless prostitute, who meets handsome and successful Domenico in Naples during World War II, sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades.
ANNA MAGNANI IN ROME, OPEN CITY
ROMA, CITTÀ APERTA
DRAMA, THRILLER, WAR | ITALY | 1945 | 103 MIN | PG Italian with English subtitles DIRECTOR Roberto Rossellini
Oscar-winning Anna Magnani was known as “the Volcano” due to her eruptions of raw emotion. She would star in both Italian and Hollywood cinema for more than three decades with her strong portrayals of working-class women, gaining international fame in Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, the Festival’s unmissable Closing Night selection.
