La Terra, Film Italia

THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE AND THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE 

PRESENT

EUROCINEMA - NEW FILMS FROM EUROPE

 

June 8 - 14 at the Aero’s Palevsky Theatre

June 14 - 17 at the Egyptian’s Spielberg Theatre

 

In association with « European Languages and Movies in America » With the support of the Goethe Institut Los Angeles; Holland Film; the Consulate General of the Netherlands, Los Angeles; the Italian Trade Commission; the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland; the French Film and TV Office, Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles,  Consulate General of France in Los Angeles.

 

AT THE AERO THEATRE

1328 Montana Avenue

Santa Monica, CA 90403 

 

Wednesday, June 13 - 7:30 PM

 

Los Angeles Premiere! 

 

LA TERRA, 2006, Italy, Film Italia, 92 min.

A remarkable piece of cross-genre Italian cinema from Sergio Rubini, the director of THE STATION with a clever screenplay, some astonishing performances and very colorful scenery. Luigi Di Santo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), exiled after killing his father as a teenager, returns to his native Puglia for some legal paperwork and is thrown into the violence of the south. Director Sergio Rubini brilliantly plays the wife-beating nightclub owner Tonino. In Italian with English subtitles. “A compulsively watchable combo of lop-sided Italian comedy and Southern film noir. Fabio Cianchetti's exhilarating lensing echoes classic spaghetti westerns in the burnt landscapes of Nardo, Lecce , Mesagne and Brindisi . The recurring pizzicato in Pino Donaggio's humorously over-the-top score recalls Leone's favorite composer, Ennio Morricone, doing Elio Petri's political thrillers.” -- Deborah Young, Variety.

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