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Italia Unita Film Series
'Le Chiavi di Casa' (The Keys to the House)
Where: Boston Public Library, 276 Meridian St., East Boston
When: Monday September 27, 2010 at 6 PM
For those of you who remember the Seville Theater on Meridian Street we are bringing it back at the Boston Public Library in East Boston! Film Night is FREE and open to the public.
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Synopsis: "Prepare yourself for suffering if you intend to be close to him." So speaks the mother of a young woman with severe disabilities, speaking to Gianni, the father of 16-year-old Paolo, himself developmentally disabled. Gianni abandoned the boy at birth, when the child's mother died, and Paulo's aunt and uncle have raised him. They have contacted Gianni and asked him to take Paulo to Berlin for a battery of medical tests. Images of people walking, running, skating, and dancing dot the screen as Gianni and Paulo get to know each other. Over a few days, Gianni tries to sort out his obligations and his desires. Will he accept his role as father to this engaging, mercurial, disabled youth?
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The Italia Unita Film Series
'La Tigre e la Neve'
Where: Boston Public Library, 276 Meridian St., East Boston
When: June 14th, 2010 at 6 PM
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 6PM Please join Italia Unita for the viewing of the 2005 Italian film La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow) starring and directed by Roberto Benigni. Movie will be shown with subtitles (running time 118 minutes).
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This romantic comedy takes place in Rome and Baghdad at the onset of the Iraq War. When news that Attilio, an endearing literature professor’s unrequited love Vittoria has been critically injured in Iraq, Attilio travels to the war torn country in an attempt to save her life. Along the way, he finds himself in comical situations, relying on his positive spirit, charm and perseverance to save her. In war and devastation, will the spirit of love conquer all
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The Italia Unita Film Series
Marty
Italia Unita will begin an Italian and Italian/American film series at the East Boston Public Library located at 276 Meridian Street East Boston, MA. For those of you who remember the Seville Theater on Meridian Street we are bringing it back at the BPL once a month! Our first film is “Marty” Monday, May 10, 2010 at 6PM 'Marty' - The film stars Borgnine as Marty Piletti, a heavy-set Italian-American butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother. Unmarried at 34, the good-natured but socially awkward man faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married. Not averse to marriage but disheartened by his lack of prospects, Marty has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood.“Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like...I ain't got it.”
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After being importuned by his mother into going to the Stardust Ballroom one Saturday night, Marty connects with Clara—a plain school teacher who has been nastily abandoned by her blind date. Spending the evening together, Clara and Marty realize their emotional connection. The two part with Marty's promise to call the next day. Fearing the romance could spell her abandonment, Marty's mother belittles Clara. Likewise, Marty's friends are unimpressed with her plainness, and try to convince Marty to forget about her. Harangued into submission, Marty doesn't call Clara. Back in the same lonely rut, Marty realizes that he is giving up a chance at love with a wonderful woman.
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Italia Unita Presents
“Our Italian Husband”
Written and directed by Ilaria Borrelli
In this charming romantic comedy, Maria (Il Postino’s Maria Grazia Cucinotta) daringly travels across the Atlantic Ocean in pursuit of the wayward husband who left her and their children in Italy to pursue his career as an artist in New York City. Soon after arriving in New York, Maria learns that her husband married another woman, the very pregnant Charlotte (Brooke Shields). Through a series of comical mishaps, Maria and Charlotte forge an unlikely friendship as they struggle to sort through the upheaval their shared husband has unexpectedly caused. Although Maria came to New York to reclaim her husband, she instead re-discovers herself and in the process creates her own definition of marriage, friendship and family.
Directed by Italian actress and first time director Ilaria Borrelli, Our Italian Husband is inspired by 60’s Italian comedy. The film is in English and Italian with subtitles.
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Italia Unita Presents
“Uncle Nino”
“An elderly Italian peasant, Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) comes to America for the first time to spend some time with his nephew, Robert Micelli (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), and his family. With his violin, a suitcase full of homemade wine, and a photo of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, in tow, Nino expects to be embraced by the country of his dreams. What he discovers instead is a place of take-out food, manicured lawns, teen smoking, processed vegetables, and a barely communicative family---each disconnected from the others, caught up in lives of multi-tasking.
For more info go to: www.uncleninothemovie.com
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