The ribbon cutting ceremony for the XXXIV edition of the Charlot Award will take place tomorrow (Sunday 10 July) at 20pm, at the Cinema Teatro Delle Arti.
The start with the mini film festival, organized in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, which this year is dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the centenary of his birth. “Accattone” film from 1961, selected among the 100 Italian films to be saved, written and directed by Pasolini, is the first of the three works included in the mini festival that the Charlot dedicates to cinema (the film will be screened tomorrow and Monday at 20 pm, with free admission until all seats are taken).
A work that marks Pasolini's directorial debut, Accattone can be considered the cinematic transposition of his previous literary works. In this film he pursues his own idea of epic and tragic narration. The film is a metaphor for that part of Italy made up of the sub-proletariat who live in the outskirts of big cities without any hope for an improvement in their condition, for whom death is the only way out of a desperate condition.
Presented at the 22nd Venice Film Festival on August 31, 1961, Pasolini's film received harsh protests. At the film's premiere at the Barberini cinema in Rome, a group of young neo-fascists tried to prevent the screening, throwing ink bottles at the screen, paper bombs and fennel into the audience. There were scuffles and the screening of the film was suspended for almost an hour. The film was released in theaters on November 22, 1961. The film was blocked by the censorship of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment and withdrawn from all theaters.
THE OTHER SCREENINGS
The tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini continues on 12/13 July with the screening of the film “Uccellacci e Uccellini” and on 14/15 July with the screening of “Decameron”.
THE YOUNG CHARLOT
And as we prepare to raise the curtain on the 2022 edition, the organization of the only event in the world dedicated to Charlie Chaplin, announces the names of the seven finalists of the "Charlot Giovani" section. Selected throughout Italy by Gianluca Tortora and Alessio Tagliento, the young comedians, on the evening of July 20 (21 pm, free admission), at the Arena del Mare will take to the stage, ready to challenge each other with laughter, to decree the winner as always will be the audience present, while the technical jury will assign the critics' prize. Accompanied by Villa per Bene who will host the evening, the following will take the stage: I doppiosenso (duo composed of Nunzio Amato Cicciano from Naples and Antonio Juliano from San Giuseppe Vesuviano), Emanuele Campasano from Pomigliano d'Arco, Chiara Anicito from Paternò (Catania), Massimiliano Samaritani called Max from Bareggio (Milan), Luisanna Vespa from Rome, the duo composed of Simone Gallo from Cecina (Li) and Andrea D'Andreagiovanni from Pescara, and Nikolas Albanese from Rho. Luca Virago will be the guest of the evening.
COMIC PERCEPTIONS
Still within the Charlot Giovani, another important event is the one with the workshops “Comic Perceptions” that will be held at the Teatro Delle Arti and that will be curated by Alessio Tagliento, author among other things of TV programs such as Zelig. The appointments, all free, will be for Tuesday 19 July from 17 pm to 20 pm, Wednesday 20 July from 10 am to 13 pm and Thursday 21 July from 17 pm to 20 pm.
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