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FASCINATING STORY A scene from "The Soul Keeper"
The Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, in association with the Italian Cultural Institute, New Delhi, and the Consulate of Italy, Chennai, is organising an Italian film festival at the South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, 606, Anna Salai, on April 5, 6 and 8.
The festival will be inaugurated by R. J. Shahaney, chairman, Ashok Leyland, Chennai, on April 5, 6.15 p.m. Cine artistes Pooja and Diya will participate in the inaugural function. The festival will open with "Romeo and Juliet" at 7 p.m. The film, which won an Academy Award, revolves around the Montagues and the Capulets, two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love.
On April 6, "The Soul Keeper" will be screened at 6.15 p.m. The film captures the plight of a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from hysteria. Based on the recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with Spielrein's healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-Revolutionary Russia, where she became a psychoanalyst herself, starting the famous White School and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence.
The same evening at 8 p.m., "Divorce, Italian Style" will follow. Ferdinando Cefalu would love to divorce his demanding, unappealing wife Rosalia, but can't resort to the legal means open to his American counterparts. He can, however, kill off his wife and receive a light sentence provided he catches her committing adultery. The trick now is to make his plate of potatoes attractive enough so that some other man will accommodate Ferdinando by cuckolding him.
On April 8, three films "The Monster" (4 p.m.), "The House Keys" (5.45 p.m.) and "The Taming of The Shrew" (7.30 p.m.) will be screened. In "The Monster", a serial sex killer is on the loose. Landscape gardener-shop window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his habit of getting caught in compromising situations. In "The House Keys", Gianni, a young man, after years of denial, meets his son Paolo, for the first time on a train going to Berlin. He is a 15-year-old with serious handicaps but a happy individual. Their stay in Germany and then in Norway turns the relationship between the two into one of findings, secrets, confrontations and happiness.
Bianca and Katerina are daughters of a rich merchant Baptista. Bianca is courted by a number of men but Baptista announces that Katerina should wed first. But none of the men wish to marry Katerina. Eventually, Petrucci, a wanderer marries Katerina, and she moves to his shoddy house. Lucentio, a student, who works as a tutor in the household, just to be near Bianca, gets permission to marry her. The film, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of The Shrew" is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by the performances of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
For details call 55163866.
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