Director: Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri.
Los Angeles Premiere!
This poignant documentary portrays the life and work of Vittorio De Sica, master of Italian neorealism and one of Italy’s most renowned actor/directors. The documentary includes interviews with De Sica’s children and many directors and actors who worked with or knew him personally, including Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Woody Allen, John Landis, Ken Loach, Paul Mazursky, Dino De Laurentiis and many others Thirty five years after his death, and almost seventy since his first film as a director (“Maddalena... zero in condotta”, 1940), “Vittorio D” it’s an irresistible portrait of one of the most funny, entertaining and versatile talent in Italian Cinema.
Director: Marco Bellocchio.
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Michela Cescon.
Los Angeles Premiere!
Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s life has been analyzed and dissected in myriad of history books; but there’s a story about him that only a few know. Il Duce fathered an illegitimate son with a woman named Ida Dalser. Ida’s relationship takes us through the past life of young Mussolini, when he was still a “socialist” working as an editor for newspaper “Avanti!”, all the way through the radical change in his politcal ideas and his rise as a dictator. The film focuses on the struggles of the abandoned Ida and her futile pleas to Mussolini to recognize their son: the Duce, of course, never obliged. Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes: “It’s a stirring portrait of a woman wronged by everybody, and by History.”
Discussion following with actors Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi.
