Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! WE HAVE A POPE (HABEMUS PAPAM), 2011, IFC Films,Los Angeles Premiere! THE SALT OF LIFE (GIANNI E LE DONNE), 2011, November 15, 2011

Tuesday, November 15 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! WE HAVE A POPE (HABEMUS PAPAM), 2011, IFC Films, 102 min. Luis Bunuel favorite Michel Piccoli stars "with consummate brilliance" (Variety) as Cardinal Melville, who fears being elected as the new pope after appointment by his co-cardinals in the Sistine Chapel (perfectly reproduced at Cinecitta). With filmmaker Nanni Moretti (THE SON'S ROOM, IL CAIMANO) in a hilarious turn as the shrink summoned to get to the bottom of Melville's mental stability and papal potential. Official selection of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Los Angeles Premiere! THE SALT OF LIFE (GIANNI E LE DONNE), 2011, Zeitgeist, 90 min. Filmmaker Gianni Di Gregorio's follow-up to his sleeper hit MID-AUGUST LUNCH centers on Gianni (played by Di Gregorio), an aging retiree who spends his time either being treated as an errand-boy by his wife and elderly mother or bemoaning his waning attractiveness to the opposite sex. When Gianni's friend Alfredo (Alfonso Santagata) comes up with a philandering scheme for them to both find younger girlfriends, Gianni is reminded of the thrills of meeting beautiful women - and of the nagging suspicion that such trysts may be paper-thin, plaintive daydreams. "[An] intimate comedy that blows fresh air around a topic long made banal by less sincere helmers… There's a wistfulness here, a gentle self-mockery that realizes that dreams can be delightful but will remain only a fantasy. " -Variety In Italian with English subtitles.
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