{"id":51991,"date":"2017-01-13T12:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/01\/austria-da-visconti-a-tornatore-2\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:39:49","slug":"austria-da-visconti-a-tornatore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2017\/01\/austria-da-visconti-a-tornatore-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria \u2013 From Visconti to Tornatore, Sicily in the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Italian films have Sicily as their common denominator, including <em>The Earth Trembles<\/em> by Luchino Visconti, <i>Respiro<\/i> by Emanuele Crialese, <i>Forever Mery<\/i> by Marco Risi and <i>Cinema Paradiso<\/i> by Giuseppe Tornatore. Sicily is an\u00a0island of contradictions &#8211; a landing stage for thousands of migrants and a reflection of the poverty of southern Italy, but also\u00a0a place rich in\u00a0culture and fascinating contrasts resulting from a succession of foreign dominations over the centuries.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCinema in the islands: an Italian journey\u201d is a major retrospective where Sicily, portrayed through movies that have left a mark on Italian cinema, is the star.\u00a0The event, organized by the \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum together with the Italian Cultural Institute\u00a0in\u00a0Vienna, will run from 6 January to 9 February. The history of Sicily \u2013 and of a people who \u201conly know the extremes\u201d as Leonardo Sciascia wrote \u2013 is the focus\u00a0of a\u00a0rich retrospective by the \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum, whose programme features\u00a0masterpieces produced by the most well-known Italian directors,. They include films about mafia crimes (<i>Illustrious Corpses<\/i> by Francesco Rosi), masterpieces of Neorealism (<i>Stromboli<\/i> by Roberto Rossellini), and\u00a0also\u00a0films from the &#8216;golden era&#8217; of Italian move-making: from dramas like <i>The Leopard<\/i> by Luchino Visconti (1963) and <i>The Adventure<\/i> by Michelangelo Antonioni (1960), to satires like <i>Divorce, Italian Style<\/i> (1962) by Pietro Germi with Marcello Mastroianni and Stefania Sandrelli and <i>Mafioso<\/i> (1962) with Alberto Sordi, and finally the rebirth of Sicilian cinema after the 1980s, with <i>Forever Mery<\/i>, recalling the naturalism of cinema, and the most successful movies like <em>Cinema Paradiso.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Italian films have Sicily as their common denominator, including The Earth Trembles by Luchino Visconti, Respiro by Emanuele Crialese, Forever Mery by Marco Risi and Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore. Sicily is an\u00a0island of contradictions &#8211; a landing stage for thousands of migrants and a reflection of the poverty of southern Italy, but also\u00a0a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-51991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}