Baaria January 13, 2010

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee from Italy: Baaria, 2009, (Italy), Summit Entertainment, 150 min. Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore. From Academy Award(R) winner Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) comes an entertaining and melancholic saga set in 20th-century Sicily. Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family, from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community. "A moving, autobiographical, nostalgic tribute to the director's Sicilian hometown of Bagheria ("Baaria" in the local dialect) as well as his family." - The Hollywood ReporterGiuseppe Tornatore to introduce the screening (subject to availability).