With a sold-out curtain-raising preview of LORO, Paolo Sorrentino's latest Felliniesque politico-social vaudeville the latest Cinema Made in Italy launched its sunniest showcase of new Italian features in the Cine Lumiere, the French-owned  art deco art-house in the heart of London's South Kensington arrondissement (running 26 February to 3 March  2019).

It was a day full of optimismo, after Signora May announced for the first time a potential  delay to Brexit, and the whole of Albion basked in weather more usual in May than at the end of the UK's deeply discontented winter. Indeed, a record temperature of +20 deg Centigrade was recorded in not-too-distant Kew Gardens. Se non e vero e ben trovato. 

A very fitting backdrop to the sardonic Sardinia-set satire of the rise and fall (and tumescence perhaps rather than further rise) of Silvio Berlusconi and his attendant follies and carnival of corruption and deceptions.

PROGRAMME

LORO + Q&A

Tue 26 Feb

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

EUPHORIA + Q&A

Wed 27 Feb

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

LUCIA’S GRACE + Q&A

Thu 28 Feb

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

RICORDI? + Q&A

Thu 28 Feb

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

THE GUEST + Q&A

Fri 1 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THE MOON + Q&A

Fri 1 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

NOTTI MAGICHE

Sat 2 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

WHEREVER YOU ARE + Q&A

Sat 2 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

THE CONFORMIST

Sun 3 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019, European Classics

Classics, Festivals & Series

WE’LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL + Q&A

Sun 3 Mar

Cinema Made in Italy 2019

Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

Phillip Bergson                                     www.institut-francais.org.uk