Screening of the movie directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Francesco Scianna.
Discovering the Italian cinema of the 21° century.
Discovering the Italian cinema of the 21° century.L'INDUSTRIALEScreening of the movie directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Francesco Scianna.Set in a grey and cold Turin, taken to the extreme by Arnaldo Cantinari's livid photography, the film depicts Nicola (Pierfrancesco Favino), a forty-year-old entrepreneur strangled by debt and by the banks, who is however proud and tenacious, and decides to resolve his problems by any means, with the help of his unscrupulous lawyer (Francesco Scianna).It is against this background – the screenplay is written by the Genoa-born director together with Andrea Purgatori – that the main character's private affair plays out, with his wife Laura (Carolina Crescentini) becoming ever more distant. Nicola begins to suspect that she is having an affair and starts following her in secret, leading him to discover her friendship with a Romanian garage owner (Eduard Gabia), the only one capable of making her smile again. And when things seem to be back to normal (the company, the marriage, social standing), Nicola will already have brought out the worst in himself and consequences will soon follow.The film is set in a city paralised by crisis, with very little traffic, deserted factories and a distant sound of protest in the background. "A story like many others about how the economic crisis can destroy an individual, which captures a historical moment", says Montaldo, eighty-years-old. "These are terrifying times. We just have to take a tour of the North to see how many empty warehouses there are". (CinEuropa) In Italian, subtitles in English. Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, at 19:00Italian Cultural Instituterehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa