Irene, a workaholic businesswoman, is forced to revaluate her priorities after the suicide of a couple of her colleagues involved in fraudulent business practices begins the unraveling of her carefully constructed life. and send her on a cathartic journey of darkness and redemption. In Italian with English subtitles.

In Irene’s unscrupulous hands, the profits from the family business have grown immensely. But when two of her friends commit suicide after her buy-out of their company, her self-confidence begins to crack. She retreats to Rome, to her family residence and learns the secrets of the last years of her mother’s life. She meets Benny, a street smart little girl, who is a challenge to her life and values. Captivated by her, Irene starts to perceive the world and people around her in a new light. When she is hit by a new tragedy, Irene throws herself into charity work turning her palatial villa into a shelter for the homeless, taking this new vocation to the very limits of madness. But to find peace, she will have to harmonize her materialistic life with her humanitarian calling.

giovedì 17 novembre alle ore 20,00 (8:00 pm) a MEZ B0.306

1960

(un film di Gabriele Salvatores, 2010) in italiano con sottotitoli in italiano

The film is a hybrid of documentary and fiction which uses the story of young boy's relationship to his much older brother who has left their southern Italian village to find fame and fortune in the north of Italy as a pretext to stitch together 75 minutes of newsreels, all shot in Italy in 1960, the year of many historic events, including the making of Fellini's La Dolce Vita, the shooting down of the U2 plane as it spied on the Soviet Union, the Rome Olympics and the election of JFK. Don't be put off by the absence of English subtitles,  the images  are mesmerizing and speak for themselves.