After the success of the two previous editions, Cinemente returns to Rome, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 18 February. The review offers a new opportunity to look in the mirror and understand the nature of feelings, combining the vision of films, focused on affective experience, with the reflection conducted by directors and psychoanalysts, compared on the suggestions offered by the projections.
Who knows better the secrets of the heart, scientists or artists? Who is better at delving into the human soul and dissecting the profound reasons for loving attachment: Shakespeare or Freud? When in doubt, both points of view were consulted: our most sensitive film directors in observing inner movements, which light or destroy affective choices, and the most authoritative psychoanalysts for their expertise on the nature of love and relationships intimate.
Their story of love and its contraindications is punctuated through some fundamental stages, such as falling in love, passion, married life and its giving in to betrayal and violence, with particular attention to the family and social context to which relationships anchor themselves firmly or in which they miserably succumb. The meetings are introduced by Fabio Castriota, Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.
Tuesday 18 February, 20.00 pm
TO THE ORIGINS
But my love does not die!
by Mario Caserini (Italy, 1913, 90')
meeting with Lucio Russo and Emiliano Morreale follows
A splendid masterpiece from a hundred years ago, this melodrama of love and death consecrated Lyda Borelli as the first film diva, for the seductive and painful incarnation of a loving feeling crushed by the weight of past identity, with psychological implications that are still incredibly current.
The version of the film restored in 2013 by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the National Cinema Museum, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana is presented at the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
Wednesday 19 February, 20.00pm
HOMOSEXUAL LOVE
Viola di mare by Donatella Maiorca (Italy, 2009, 105')
meeting with Amalia Giuffrida and the director follows
A small island near Sicily, second half of the 800th century, two women love each other, challenging the violence and backwardness of a closed world with a revolutionary choice, which from the past recalls our present, still willing to deny freedom and dignity to all the different love choices.
Thursday 20 February, 20.00
PASSION
What more do I want by Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland, 2010, 126')
meeting with Loredana Micati and the director follows
A chance encounter between two married people, passion takes over their common lives and upsets them, throwing open the cages of their unsatisfied everyday life. Soldini digs with rare sensitivity into the subsoil of love, recording the uncontrollable urgencies and imperceptible pulsations of feelings.
Friday 21 February, 17.00
COURTS OF LOVE
meeting with Fabrizio Rocchetto and the directors follows
Cinemente this year is enriched with new points of view thanks to the students of some film schools in Rome, who explore in their short films the most intimate meanings of love, filtered through the experiences of the new generations. Thanks to: CSC – Experimental Center of Cinematography, NUCT – International School of Cinema and Television, Free University of Cinema. v
Friday 21 February, 20.00
IN FAMILY
The most beautiful day of my life by Cristina Comencini (Italy, 2001, 102')
meeting with Anna Nicolò and the director follows
The complexities of family relationships, filtered with great delicacy through the pristine gaze of a little girl, weave this extraordinary group portrait, which brings to the surface those lumps of tensions, fears and censures that hinder the conquest of emotional harmony.
Saturday 22 February, 17.00pm
THE LOVE TRANSFER
Take my soul by Roberto Faenza (Italy, France, Great Britain, 2003, 90')
meeting with Manuela Fraire and Flavio De Bernardinis follows
The process by which our mind projects past emotions onto present relationships and which supports the psychoanalytic path is the fulcrum of this film on Sabine Spielrein, an extraordinary and unknown figure, who was Jung's first patient and became his lover. as revealed by the correspondence between her, Jung and Freud.
Saturday 22 February, 20.00pm
THE BETRAYAL
If anything by Alessandro D'Alatri (Italy, 2002, 102')
meeting with Anna Ferruta, director and screenwriter Anna Pavignano follows
A profound investigation of the couple relationship and its predisposition to crisis, when the initial project of life as a couple gets stuck in individual fragility and, with the invasive complicity of work, friends and relatives, gives in to routine and the unsaid, until to treason.
Sunday 23 February, 17.00pm
THE FALLING IN LOVE
Weddings and other disasters by Nina di Majo (Italy, 2009, 102')
meeting with Stefania Nicasi and the director follows
This sophisticated comedy tells us in a light tone the tortuous and bumpy paths of love, which through mistakes, distractions and gaffes often attracts opposite worlds, embodied by three irresistible interpreters: Buy, Litizzetto and Volo.
Sunday 23 February, 20.00pm
SICK LOVE
Matteo Garrone's first love (Italy, 2004, 100')
meeting with Lorena Preta and the director follows
Garrone pushes us with an implacable and rigorous hand to the abyss of love hell, where attachment degenerates into subjection and becomes the scene of a lucid madness, made up of physical or psychological violence, like that of the protagonist, who plagiarizes a woman leading her to anorexia .
Information Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Sala Cinema staircase in via Milano 9 A, Rome www.palazzoesposizioni.it
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