admin On novembre - 13 - 2013

CinemaXXI: from the latest film by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto to the lengthy debate over the war-time resistance in the Polesine with Elisabetta Sgarbi;

the enthusiastic reception of Fear of Falling by Oscar®-winner Jonathan Demme, and the audience’s birthday wishes to Wallace Shawn on his seventieth

The Rome Film Festival audiences are proving to be enthusiastic about CinemaXXI, the competitive line-up devoted to new trends in world cinema. The highlights of yesterday: Monday November 11.

Thanks to a joint collaboration with MAXXI – the National Museum of the 21st-century Arts, audiences were treated to the international premiere of the documentary Twenty-One-Twelve the Day the World Didn’t End, by a leading exponent of Italy’s Arte Povera movement, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, and the Portuguese filmmaker Marco Martins, who teamed up for a fascinating discussion after the screening. Memorably, the artist shared his thoughts on the role of art and its relationship to film with the festival audience and the press in attendance.

The world premiere of the documentary Quando i tedeschi non sapevano nuotare by Elisabetta Sgarbi, one of the most original new talents in Italian film, was also very well received. The screening was followed by a late-evening debate over the resistance movement in the countryside beyond Ferrara and in the Polesine that engrossed the Teatro Studio audience for over an hour.

A packed Sala Petrassi reserved thunderous applause for the world premiere of Fear of Falling, the new feature by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme. And at the stroke of midnight, the audience celebrated the seventieth birthday of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, star of the film. To the strains of “Happy Birthday to You”, director Jonathan Demme and actors Lisa Joyce and Jeff Biehl lustily joined in to fete Shawn.

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