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Una giornata particolare (Italian with English subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
December 4th, 2024
Duration
106 min
Cycle
Marcello Mastroianni

The extraordinary journey of this actor, a leading figure in Italian and European cinema for over three decades, brings us back to the heart of the most demanding auteur cinema, as well as to the most inventive, joyful, and iconic popular films. With a unique sense of style and a casual elegance, he became one of the most accomplished embodiments of the screen actor.

Winner of the César for Best Foreign Film in 1978

A Special Day
Directed by
Ettore Scola
Language
Italian with English subtitles
Actors
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Origins
Italy, Québec
Year
1977
Duration
106 min
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

On a special day in 1938, all of Rome is attending a parade celebrating Hitler’s meeting with Mussolini. A working-class housewife, left alone to tend to household duties, meets the only person not attending the parade, a liberal radio broadcaster, and the two forge an unexpectedly close friendship.

A Special Day
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Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola was an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter known for his bold and distinctive style. He seamlessly blended sharp psychological analysis, biting satire of modern societies, irony, farce, disenchantment, melancholy, and innovative narrative techniques. His films often reflect on the individual's role within society and history, exploring both personal and collective memory in the face of time. Scola gained recognition with the tragicomedy A Drama of Jealousy (Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca), for which Marcello Mastroianni won Best Actor at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. In 1976, he won the Best Director Award at Cannes for Down and Dirty (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), a scathing satire of Roman society that cemented his status as a master of Italian comedy. In a more intimate tone, his most celebrated film, A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, was released the following year. Over his career, Scola directed nearly 40 films across four decades.

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Never before in cinema has the essence of fascism been so clearly emphasized, the reasons for its hold on bodies and hearts, this mass phenomenon caused by the fear of abnormality, to the point of denying all personality. The miracle is that nothing is ever demonstrated, explained or asserted. Not the shadow of the beginning of a demonstration.
A. Remond
(1977)
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