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Italian Film Festival coming to New Zealand

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 1:40PM

By Sarah Thornton

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18 April 2017

Coming soon!  Hepburn, Visconti, Delon and a few Perfect Strangers

Cinema Italiano Festival brings the best of Italian film to NZ audiences

Movie buffs prepare: the Italian Film Festival is coming to New Zealand.   Featuring a heady selection of films that celebrate Italian life in all its forms, The Cinema Italiano Festival will begin its six month national tour in June 2017.

Curated by New Zealand’s favourite Italian - actor, director and playwright Paolo Rotondo – the Festival will open in Christchurch, before moving through the country via Nelson, Tauranga, Havelock North, Auckland and Wellington before its final screenings in Napier in December.

Rotondo says this year the Festival will bring the Italian community, Kiwis and Italian culture together around the “light of cinema”.

“I am extremely proud and thrilled about our 2017 line-up.  Our resources are tiny but our ambitions are great – that is to create a daring, innovative, charming and inclusive event for all tastes,” says Rotondo.

The Cinema Italiano Festival will honour Italian filmmaking past and present with an impressive and interesting lineup of cinematic treats.  Each city will open with a digitally re-mastered version of the classic comedy ‘Roman Holiday’, a giddy Valentine to Roma starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck.

Other Festival highlights include Nunziante’s comedy ‘Where Am I Going?’, the highest grossing film in Italian cinema history; Genovese’s dramatic comedy Perfect Strangers that explores what happens when a group of good friends gather for dinner and take part in an innocent experiment resulting in some eye-opening disclosure; and Visconti’s 1960 gritty crime film, Rocco and His Brothers starring Alain Delon and Annie Girardot. 

For dates, bookings, tickets and information visit www.cinemaitalianonz.com

Buonissimo!

 

ENDS

For more information and interviews with Paolo Rotondo, please contact Sarah Thornton, sarah@thorntoncomms.co.nz or phone 027 354-7747

 

 

 

Dates and locations

Christchurch                         June 14 to 25

Nelson                                       June 16 to 23

Tauranga                                  July 7 t0 16

Havelock North                   July 26 to August 2

Auckland                                 August 31 to September 14

Wellington                             November 1 to 14

Napier                                       December 1 to 2

 

 

Films:

Duel of Wine / Barolo Boys / The Stuff of Dreams

Roman Holiday / Where am I Going? / Theatre of Life

For Your Love / Belli di Papa / God Willing

Sweet Dreams / The Confessions / Solo

Antonia / Me, Myself & Her / Italian Race

Don't Be Bad / Fire At Sea / Perfect Strangers

Rocco & His Brothers / Ever Been To The Moon