Cinema all`aperto IX

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CINEMA ALL’APERTO
IX edizione
Tribute to Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant
Gardens of Villa Medici
July 6th to 17th 2015, at 9.15 pm
Cinema all’aperto, a film festival organized by the French Academy in Rome, dedicates this
ninth edition to Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant, two extraordinary actors
who made Italian and French film history, with ten films screened from July 6th to 17th in the
splendid gardens of Villa Medici.
This much awaited summer event will open Monday, July 6th with Il sorpasso (The Easy Life)
by Dino Risi, an Italian comedy that is a true masterpiece in which the two actors perform
together aboard a famous sporty convertible launched in the streets of the capital, and they
are together again in Il deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars) by Valerio Zurlini,
scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th.
Sublime stage actor, great showman, one of the cinema’s most emblematic personalities,
Vittorio Gassman left us a vast filmography. Cinema all’aperto has selected some of the films
where he encounters directors who made the history of Italian and French cinema: Dino
Risi’s I mostri (The Monsters), a gallery of portraits depicting the ferocious myths and
contradictions of the 1960s; maestro Ettore Scola’s C’eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved
Each Other So Much) where Gassman gives one of his greatest performances supported by
an exceptional cast; La grande guerra (The Great War) by Mario Monicelli, an unsurpassed
model of Italian comedy dealing with the dramas of World War I, awarded the Leone d'Oro at
the Venice Film Festival in 1959; La vie est un roman (Life is a Bed of Roses), the film that
marked the change in style of director Alain Resnais.
A giant of French cinema, Jean-Louis Trintignant is the extraordinary interpreter of Ma nuit
chez Maud (My Night at Maud's), the geometric existential dilemma of the great Éric Rohmer
and Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), Claude Lelouch’s most famous film,
awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film and
Best Writing. We also find Trintignant in one of Bernardo Bertolucci’s most important films, Il
conformista (The Conformist), and at the age of 81 Trintignant returned to the big screen in
2012 with Michael Haneke in Amour, a magnificent deeply suffered film for which he won a
César as best actor, a film this festival couldn’t do without.
This year, as part of Cinema all’aperto, the French Academy in Rome offers once again a
guided tour through the gardens of Villa Medici dedicated to locations immortalized in famous
films such as Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti and La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty)
by Paolo Sorrentino, and the work of the many directors who have been in residence here.
After the success of the editions dedicated to Isabelle Huppert (2014), Michel Piccoli (2013),
Marcello and Chiara Mastroianni (2012), Cinema all’aperto remains one of the most eagerly
awaited events of the roman summer season, presenting masterpieces that are testimonials
of the extraordinary artistic dialogue between France and Italy, films presented in the
gardens of Villa Medici in their original version and screened on film.
Calendar
All showings are at 9.15 pm
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Monday July 6
Il sorpasso (The Easy Life) by Dino Risi
Italy, 1962, 102’
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Tuesday July 7
Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud’s) by Éric Rohmer
France, 1969, 110’
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Wednesday July 8
La grande Guerra (The Great War) by Mario Monicelli
Italy, France, 1959, 140’
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Thursday July 9
La vie est un roman (Life is a Bed of Roses) by Alain Resnais
Francia, 1983, 110’
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Friday July 10
C’eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much) by Ettore Scola
Italy, 1974, 121’
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Monday July 13
Il conformista (The Conformist) by Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy, France, Germaniy, 1970, 105′
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Tuesday July 14
Amour by Michael Haneke
Francia, Germania, Austria, 2012, 127’
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Wednesday July 15
Il deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars) by Valerio Zurlini
France, Italiy, Germany, 1976, 150’
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Thursday July 16
I mostri (The Monsters) by Dino Risi
France, Italy, 1963, 118’
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Friday July 17
Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) by Claude Lelouch
France, 1966, 103’
Information
Ticket: 5 € (whole) / 4 € (reduced) / 12 € (guided tour + showing)
During the festival, the ticket office opens one hour before the screening. No admittance after the film
has begun. All screenings are on film. All films are in their original version with Italian subtitles
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