Open Roads: New Italian Cinema Film Fest 2019

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Published on Wednesday, 05 June 2019 15:40

Written by Brad Balfour

Piranhas

Featuring the freshest films from Italy, the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film fest kicks of the Summer of cinema in NYC. Running June 6 to 12 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Open Roads has 17 films, 8 of which are North American premieres.

The Opening Night film is Claudio Giovannesi’s Piranhas, adapted from the novel by Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano. Piranhas follows a group of cocksure young men enraptured by the local Camorra who find themselves gradually descending into the violent, paranoid world of the Napoli mafia. Other films include Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro, a satirical reimagining of the fall of Silvio Berlusconi with The Great Beauty's Toni Servillo as the disgraced and debaucherous prime minister. Open Roads will also feature a special repertory screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1962 directorial debut La Commare Secca, a savvy, formally audacious murder mystery adapted from a short story by Pier Paolo Pasolini that marks a fitting introduction to the Italian master, who passed away in November at the age of 77.

Documentaries at Open Roads include the North American premiere of Agostino Ferrente's lyrical and moving Selfie, a chronicle of adolescent friendship in the gang-ravaged Traiano region of Naples largely filmed on smartphones by the 16-year-old subjects

To learn more, go to: https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/open-roads-new-italian-cinema/

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019
June 6 - 12, 2019

Film Society of Lincoln Center