Monday, November 14 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! CHILL (SCIALLA!), 2011, Rai Trade, 95 min. In writer Francesco Bruni's charmingly funny and endlessly crowd-pleasing directorial debut, Fabrizio Bentivoglio (THE FAMILY FRIEND) stars as an apathetic retired schoolteacher whose life is thrown off-kilter when he discovers he has a 15-year-old son. With Barbora Bobulova (COCO CHANEL) as a former porn star who becomes mixed up in the father-son bonding. Official selection and recipient of the top prize in the Controcampo Italiano section of the 2011 Venice International Film Festival. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Los Angeles Premiere! LOVE & SLAPS (LA BELLEZZA DEL SOMARO), 2011, Intra Movies, 107 min. In actor-director Sergio Castellito's (DON’T MOVE) romp-like farce of aging and family dynamics, successful architect Marcello (played by Castellito) is approaching the half-century mark with stress and neurosis. He and psychologist wife Marina (Laura Morante) plan to celebrate the looming event at their Tuscan country home with a few close friends and family, but when the couple's daughter Rosa (Nina Torresi) shows up with her T.S. Eliot-quoting new boyfriend, who is Marcello's senior by decades, the "quiet" weekend goes berserk.In Italian with English subtitles. Discussion between films with actress Lidia Vitale (LOVE & SLAPS) – schedule permitting.
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Added by AmericanCinematheque on November 2, 2011