Fiume o morte!
Italian warrior-poet Gabriele D’Annunzio’s strange, bloody rule of a small Croatian city is examined in Igor Bezinović’s high-energy hybrid documentary that holds a mirror to contemporary fears of fascism. Winner of the top prize at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Q&A with Igor Bezinović on April 4 (FLC) and April 5 (MoMA)
The past is present and fact made fiction in Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte!, a high-energy hybrid documentary about early-20th-century Italian warrior-poet Gabriele D’Annunzio. A model for Mussolini who ruled Rijeka, Croatia, with an iron fist, D’Annunzio’s 16-month reign left such a legacy that current denizens (street-cast in a brilliant montage) are more than a little willing to play-act as his soldiers. Bezinović elaborately restages Rijeka’s strange, bloody era in a duet between filmmaking and history that melds Wes Anderson, Straub-Huillet, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up while holding an uneasy mirror to contemporary fears of fascism. Winner of the top prize at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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