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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2011
June 1 - 8, 2011
The director of Mediterraneo assembles from the RAI TV archives a fascinating portrait of Italy in boom times, chronicling a family’s search for a son.
An extraordinary year: Rome hosted the Olympics, Fellini created La Dolce Vita, Kennedy was elected U.S. President—and Gabriele Salvatores was 10 years old. Using the story, told in voiceover, of a southern family searching for a son long emigrated to Milan, Salvatores (Happy Family, Mediterraneo) draws on the vast archive of RAI TV to assemble a fascinating portrait of Italy at the height of an economic boom that would forever transform the country.
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