FROM TUESDAY 2 ON SUNDAY 28/8
CCCC. Museum, 2
This is the fourth year that the Center del Carme offers a free open-air film series in August with European comedies that are not easy to find in commercial theaters or on online platforms.. Films directed by great masters of European cinema such as Ernst Lubitsch or Ettore Scola alternate with films by new directors every night at 10 p.m.. (from Tuesday to Sunday) and will be presented by the film critic and cycle coordinator Daniel Gascó. The cycle starts with the French film Antoinette in the Cévennes about a woman who embarks on a journey in which she decides to follow the same route and conditions as Robert Louis Stevenson. It will be followed by the episodic film by Ettore Scola If you allow me, let's talk about women (1964), conceived to suit its protagonist Vittorio Gassman; and one of the most unique pieces of Spanish cinema, the anchorite (1976), directed by José Manuel M. Herrero with a script by Rafael Azcona and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez. The rest of the projections of the first week are Oh, Boy! (2012), first work in English Jan Ole Gerster; Bad poems (2018), second work by Gábor Reisz, and the Czech comedy 1941 Hotel Modrá hvezda.
The second week [9-14/8] The public will be able to travel from 1931 a 2009 through comedy cinema with works such as The Rape of the Mona Lisa (The theft of the Mona Lisa, 1931), the british Comfort and joy (1984) of Bill Forsyth and This time we're talking about men (This time we talk about men, 1965), second feature film by Lina Wertmuller with which she responded to the first film by Ettore Scola projected in this same cycle. For your part, the czech movie Marek, hand me the pen! (Marek, pass me the pen, 1976) by Oldrich Lipský tells the story of a group of factory veterans who must return to their secondary studies and finish them if they want to obtain their promotion, while in Cold souls, by Sophie Barthes, the protagonist, played by Paul Giamatti embarks on a journey in search of himself. Saturday 13/8 will be projected Narco (2004), a film never released in our country that has a great cast of actors, an effective soundtrack and a hilarious script.
Seven years before the Reservoir dogs will pass through the screen, Who Kaurismäki met 16 border characters with sunglasses on Calamari union (1985), that opens the programming for the week of 16 al 21 of August. The German completes the poster Pappa before doors (Attention, dad arrives!, 1991); the italian classic The federal, a film released with success and received with scandal in 1961 which features the first film score by Ennio Morricone, or the well-known Cursed Lawn (Fuzzy damn, 1995), a comedy directed by Josiane Balasko and starring Victoria Abril that satirizes anti-gay attitudes while attacking heterosexual family stereotypes. The French Huge (2019) addresses gender issues again by reversing the male and female roles, and the week ends The oyster princess (The oyster princess, 1919) de Ernst Lubitsch.
Of the 23 al 28 of August, The cycle takes viewers to the last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st with the Italian Moon and the other (1996), that depicts the feelings and naivety of the 1950s, Almanya – Welcome to Germany (2011), in which its director Yasemin Sanderelli recounts the experience of moving to Germany with her Turkish family, and a pearl of Greek cinema that barely transcended its borders, No budget story (1997). Daniel Auteuil and Guillaume Canet share the spotlight in the French The good times (2019) y My thoughts are silent (2019) brings to the public the youthful energy of the Ukrainian Antonio Lukich and the entire debut team of the film. on sunday 28/8 ends the cycle I am your person (The perfect man, 2021), film in which Maria Schrader proposes an idyllic future created after processing all the information banks that we have been segregating in our Internet activity. AU
