香港意大利電影節2007

又差點錯過了! 一如往年, 這個一年一度的Italian Film Festival又是Hong Kong Arts Centre與Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong合辦, 又是在沒多宣傳及廣告的情況下舉行.

幸而我慣常看HK Magazine, 才得悉下星期便開始了! (咁我仲有無時間撲飛呢?!?!?!?!?!)

只有六齣電影, 內容資料由香港藝術中心提供.

Le Rose Del Deserto (Roses of the Desert) 2006

Inspired from Il Deserto in Libia by Mario Tobino, the story takes life during the summer of 1940, in a remote oasis of the Libyan Desert amid an Italian military camp.
An Italian friar, with the co-operation of the military doctors, transforms the martial enclosure into a humanitarian mission, while the war waging around the camp assumes a distant and abstract form. Suddenly the situation in the northern part of Africa takes an unexpected turn and throughout the dynamic evolution of the war around them, the characters battle to maintain their romantic ideals and moral principles.

June 4, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema


Santa Maradona (Saint Maradona) 2001 (六年前那麼久???)

Andrea is a twenty-seven years old, with a doctorate, some girlfriends, a lot of hope but no perspective to get out of the rat race that awaits him after his studies. His two best friends are a lazy and quarrelsome person but with a great sense of reality by the name of Bart and Lucia, an Indo-Italian girl with a troubled sentimental life.
While Andrea’s life moves on, his hopes vanish one by one until one day he meets Dolores and a sudden and passionate love story teach him that anything can happen in life and that things can change.
After all it is possible to enter the “adult” world without having to compromise on the essence of life.

June 5, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema


Ma Quando Arrivano Le Ragazze? (When will the Girls arrive?)

Gianca and Nick are two young artists whose dream is to form their own Jazz Group. After finally being able to launch their “Joy Spring Quintet”, the group becomes the launching platform for Nick’s natural talent while Gianca has to face his artistic mediocrity.
After nine years, Gianca attends Nick’s concert where among the crowd and amid a whirlwind of emotions he will witness a piece that he himself had written with and for his friends, during a time when everything could still be expected from life.

June 7, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema


La Febbre (The Fever) 2005

The story of a thirty years old that lives with his widowed mother plans to open a disco with a group of friends when suddenly he receives a job offer form the municipality.
The new job soon highlights the contrast between his new position and his entrepreneurial spirit and the sudden encounter with a girl soon open up new perspectives in his life.

June 8, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema

E Se Domani... (And If Tomorrow) 2005

Matteo Cillario is a lawyer whose best friend is about to become one of his worst clients: Mimi Rendano has locked himself up in a bank with hostages. The only thing that Matteo knows is that Mimi is the kindest person on earth, reason why he decides to tell us his story:
Mimi is in love with Ketty who is married to Giovanni, his childhood friend and business partner. When Giovanni dies Mimi’ discreetly tries to help Ketty set up her own business but a series of events culminate in the bank’s rejection of a loan and Ketty leaving.
When Matteo is finally able to obtain a sentence of house arrest for Mimi in Ketty’s house, things don’t exactly turn out as anyone would have imagined…

June 9, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema


Baciami Piccina (Kiss Me Baby) 2006

1943 in Italy, while the Great War is waging there is a lot of movement in the usually quiet town of Civita di Terentola: Two “carabinieri” have to rush to Montorio di Terni where an uprising is taking place in front of a steel plant.
Further complications arise when a train, escorting Raoul Nuvolini – a swindler wanted by the Magistrate of Venice – breaks down and it is up to Umberto, one of the “carabinieri” to accompany Raoul up to Venice.

June 10, 7:00pm, Agnes b Cinema