The Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago and the Cineteca Nacional de Chile are pleased to announce the “Mastroianni 100” retrospective of Marcello Mastroianni’s finest films.
Organised on the occasion of the centenary celebration of Mastroianni’s birth, the retrospective will feature eight films by the Italian actor in their original restored versions with Spanish subtitles. The festival will be held from 24 to 29 September at the Cineteca Nacional de Chile and will be inaugurated in the presence of scholar and researcher David Vera Meiggs.
Among the films to be screened are:
- Marriage Italian Style (1964) on Tuesday 24;
- Casanova 70 (1965) on Wednesday 25;
- Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (1963) on Thursday 26;
- A Special Day (1977) and Oci ciornie (1987) on Friday 27;
- La Notte (1982) e 8½ (1963) on Saturday 28;
- La Dolce Vita (1960) on Sunday 29.
“Being able to celebrate Mastroianni on the centenary of his birth is extremely important for us as he is a global icon of Italian culture. He worked with the most important film directors of the 20th century, such as Fellini, Visconti, Scola, De Sica and Antonioni, and was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Mastroianni represents a model of Italian excellence in terms of creativity, style and irony. He was able to enchant the world, becoming to this day an unforgettable symbol of Italian cinema, society and culture. For all these reasons, we are delighted to honour him with this unmissable event, the second major project organized in collaboration with the Cineteca Nacional, after the one dedicated to Pasolini,” said Cristina Di Giorgio, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago.
“We are excited to be able to organise this exhibition as a tribute to an icon in the history of cinema. Not all stars are synonymous with true cinematic essence. Mastroianni is. Every frame of his performance in La Dolce Vita, for example, is deeply iconic. Furthermore, we are very happy that his great performances will be visible thanks to copies recently restored in Italy. This way, we will be able to see these great classics of Italian cinema in a way that has perhaps never been seen before in the country,” added Marcelo Morales, director of the Cineteca Nacional de Chile.
Mastroianni (1924-1996) was the most beloved star of post-war Italian cinema. Trained at Luchino Visconti’s theatre school, he was Federico Fellini’s alter ego and an eclectic performer in some 150 films. He was nominated for an Academy Award three times and won Best Actor twice at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1970 for Ettore Scola’s The Pizza Triangle and in 1987 for Nikita S. Michalkov’s Oči čšrnye (Oci ciornie). In Venice, he won the Coppa Volpi for best supporting actor twice, in 1989 for Scola’s Che ora è? (ex aequo with Massimo Troisi) and in 1993 for 1, 2, 3, Freeze directed by Bertrand Blier. Finally, he was twice awarded a special David di Donatello for lifetime achievement (in 1983 and 1997).
In 1962, he was named the most beloved foreign actor in America by Time magazine.
