SEPT 1, 4 & 5
Confronting the Past: Italian Film Classics of the 1970s
Director: Ettore Scola
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Writer: Maurizio Costanzo, Ettore Scola
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
Though it was shot three decades after the war, Ettore Scola's A Special Day remains one of the most telling films ever made about Italian Fascism, viewing the period's oppressive atmosphere and enforced flag-waving through the prism of a delicate human relationship between a man and a woman." - Deborah Young for the Criterion Collection. Read the complete essay.
1hr 46mins / NR
"..a luminous, humanist two-hander, made more intriguing by Pasqualino De Santis's consistently sepia-toned cinematography." - SLANT