The San Diego Italian Film Festival celebrates its third year, starting October 16 through November 7. The festival provides an opportunity for all Italians and lovers of Italian culture to rediscover passion, love, and the best flavors of life in this season’s festival.
This year's San Diego Italian Film Festival features major recently released Italian films by internationally acclaimed award-winning directors. Festival films have English subtitles.
The Festival is made possible through a collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, and the Ministero degli Affari Esteri in Rome and independent distributors.
Festival continues until Saturday, November 7
The film for November 1st is: "Uno Su Due One Out of Two."
Admission: Free, but $5 donation requested.
For more information, please call: (619) 238-7559
or visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
This year's San Diego Italian Film Festival features major recently released Italian films by internationally acclaimed award-winning directors. Festival films have English subtitles.
The Festival is made possible through a collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, and the Ministero degli Affari Esteri in Rome and independent distributors.
Festival continues until Saturday, November 7
The film for November 1st is: "Uno Su Due One Out of Two."
This is director Eugenio Cappuccio’s second feature film. His first film, Volevo solo dormirle addosso (2004), is a grating portrait of a young industrial manager whose own success is measured by the large and sweeping job cuts he is required to make. Uno su due is in many ways on a similar tack. Lorenzo is an ambitious attorney who has fought steadily in order to achieve a certain level of success. Everyone admires Lorenzo. He owns a beautiful home, a good relationship with his girlfriend, and gets along well with his friends.
All seems to be reaching an apex that will set him up for life. He and his brother Paolo are about to close a big deal with a group of Russian investors when an unexpected event in Lorenzo’s life will cast it all into a state of suspension. Uno su due (One in Two) – I’ll let you imagine what the meaning of this might be, is the sentence that hangs over Lorenzo. The arrogant and presumptuous self-made man, apparently invincible, is brought face to face with himself, his human frailty and the uncertainties of life. In a world where material gain and success had seemed to be the only defining factors, Lorenzo discovers the overwhelming truth of human life. As a way to understand this, which we might in a rather banal way call “the meaning of life”, Lorenzo embarks on a voyage both internal and physical.
The director successfully engages his actors to illustrate a variety of sentiments in relation with the world. Both Fabio Volo in the lead character and all the supporting actors provide a sensitive and measured representation of a set of circumstances that could easily stray into exaggeration. I would like to particularly mention Ninetto Davoli, who plays Giovanni, for this actor’s long career in the margins of Italian cinema. Davoli was one of Pasolini’s favorite actors and in this film he brings his character fully to life. While the subject matter of Uno su due is not completely original, the film nevertheless brings to the screen a felt and sincere gaze into our contemporary society and the too little room it often affords irony and emotions. (Review by Prof. Pasqual Verdiccio, UCSD)
Admission: Free, but $5 donation requested.
For more information, please call: (619) 238-7559
or visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
