Presented by EU office in Hong Kong and the EU Membes States, in association with Broadway Cinematheque, European Film Festival (EUFF) 2013 will be held from 22 February to 6 March 2013 in Broadway Cinematheque and Palace IFC with a selection of critically acclaimed films that has been nominated for various prominent film awards, including the Golden Globe and Oscars.
Italy participates with:
Reality
Director : Matteo Garrone
Winner of Grand Prix Award, 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Garrone’s follow-up movie to the 2008 Grand Prix winner movie Gomorrah is a neo-realist, hilarious critique of the reality TV. Garrulous fishmonger Luciano is an ordinary hawker occasionally running cheap scams for extra money on the side, doing little entertainments to amuse his family and neighbours. His life takes a turn and the ego harboured beneath the skin is provoked when the former contestant on the Italian reality TV Big Brother, Enzo’s show in the village wedding is more popular than the drag queen he plays. Overwhelmed with enthusiasm and determination about himself, Luciano goes to the Big Brother auditions held in the local shopping mall and make it to Rome where he is casted after harassing the jaded host Enzo. There begins not a road to fame but a blue-collar misadventure ending in the man’s near-insanity as Luciano becomes obsessed with television celebrity and eventually the program invades into his life.
ScreeningsFeb 22 (Fri) – 7:20 p.m., Palace IFC Feb 27 (Wed), 7:40 p.m., Broadway CinemathequeMar 17 (Sun), 5.20 p.m., Broadway CinemathequeBUY TICKETS HERE For more information, please visit http://bc.cinema.com.hk/filmfestival/euff2013/home.html or facebook page http://www.facebook.com/HKEUFF