Please join us for part 1 of our Winter contemporary Italian Film Series organized by the University of Washington Rome Center
in conjunction with ItaliaIdea language school
IN JANUARY 2008: the cinema of EDOARDO WINSPEARE
screening: SANGUE VIVO (Life Blood; 2000)
Tuesday, January 15 @ 5:30 pm
(Life Blood) throws viewers into the middle of the chaotic life of Zimba (Pino Zimba), a hot-blooded fruit and vegetable vendor who makes ends meet smuggling cigarettes from Albania. He has two kids, a hostile wife, a compliant lover and a much younger, ex-addict brother, Donato (Lamberto Probo). Both siblings have been traumatized by their father's accidental
death, for which Zimba feels responsible. The dramatic setup is convincingly portrayed by the intense screen presence and physicality of Zimba and Probo. Both are musicians in the group Zoe, which composed the film's catchy ethnic soundtrack. (...) Regional music plays a central role in propelling the story. Based on the millennia-old rhythm of the tarantella (called the pizzica-pizzica in Salento), this sensual, hot-blooded, compulsively danceable music is currently enjoying a comeback with young Italo listeners.
-- Deborah Young, Variety
screening: IL MIRACOLO (The Miracle; 2003)
Tuesday, January 22 @ 5:00 pm
7:00 pm meeting with director & reception following film
The unease of Italy's selfishness is [...] subtly and beautifully evoked in "The Miracle," a terse, captivating drama from Edoardo Winspeare. After a 12-year-old boy survives a hit-and-run accident on his bicycle, he believes he may have special healing powers. Bathed in the golden
light of southern Italy and the celestial highlights of Paolo Carnera's exquisite cinematography, "The Miracle" is far less spiritual than its title suggests, instead focusing on the down-to-earth, intimate transformations that take place between ordinary people. [...] With its distinct sense of place -- a Southern seaside city surrounded eerily by industrial smokestacks -- "The Miracle" also points to the current trend of films set outside of Italy's urban metropolises.
-- Anthony Kaufman, IndieWire
Admission free of charge. All films in Italian with English subtitles.
Click the following links to find out more about past film series and featured directors.
Winter 2008 -- Director Alex Infascelli
Winter 2008 -- Director Edoardo Winspeare
Fall 2007 -- Actor Luigi Lo Cascio
Fall 2007 -- Director Daniele Luchetti
Spring 2007 --Actress Maya Sansa
Winter 2007 -- Gabriele Salvatores
Fall 2006 -- Giuseppe Piccioni
Spring 2006 -- Mimmo Calopresti
Winter 2006 -- Paolo Virzi'
Fall 2005 -- Matteo Garrone
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