Ticketing info: http://tinyurl.com/l4xhyaa (70 seats per screening are available for online booking; a confirmation e-mail will be sent after booking. Walk-in tickets sales start 45 minutes prior to each screening. Each person can book up to TWO tickets per screening. Free seating.)
Event info:http://tinyurl.com/mv28eku
Saturday 6th May: Screening at 7.30PM + Close Reading Session (CANTONESE) hosted by Mr. KWOK Tsz Ki
Saturday 13th May: Screening at 7.30PM + Close Reading Session (ENGLISH) hosted by Mr. Angelo Paratico
Autonomous Cinema aims to promote “close reading” – a critical method of observing and evaluating film in details. Everyone is invited to join the “Close Reading Class” and learn form the classics after each screening. The free admission sessions will be held at HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity – First Floor, Room 108.
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After Ingrid Bergman expressed her fondness of Roberto Rossellini’s “Rome, Open City”, the couple-to-be soon kicked their first ever collaboration – Stromboli.
Living in an Italian refugee camp after World War II, the Nordic Karen from Lithuania meets Antonio, a recently released Italian POW. After the denial of a visa to her dreamland – Argentina, Karen marries Antonio and they soon sail off to his home village, Stromboli. The village is not only a fishing community on a remote island but is also at the foot of an active volcano.
With the difficulty of speaking the local dialect and understanding the cultural discrepancy, most local villagers treat Karen merely as an exotic foreigner and a loose woman. In the final scene, she sets off across the volcanic mountains to seek her freedom and a better future. Here, one cannot help but feel that Rossellini has achieved a fusion of melodramatic touch on women and the neo-realist style that powerfully and vividly captures the geographical details.
Film in Italian with English and Chinese subtitles.
Release date: 1950
Running time: 107 min.
HD film in black and white.