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La signora senza camelie
A backstage, film-on-film melodrama partly built around Antonioni’s association with various actresses, Cecchi d’Amico’s first collaboration with the director (on his second feature) was also co-written with Francesco Maselli and Pier ...
Wed 29 May
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Violent Summer
Cecchi d’Amico’s only script for Zurlini broke a longstanding taboo in most Italian cinema: the depiction of the events of the summer of 1943. Against the backdrop of Mussolini’s fall and the Allied invasion of Italy, a Fascist party b...
Wed 5 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
I magliari
Co-written by Cecchi d’Amico, Rosi’s gritty and atmospheric second feature is a tale mired in the increasingly borderless, itinerant and opportunistic world of post-war Europe. Alberto Sordi stars as an Italian travelling salesman atte...
Wed 5 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Passionate Thief
Cecchi d’Amico collaborated with comedy legends Age & Scarpelli to adapt stories by Alberto Moravia in this tale of a washed-up actress (Anna Magnani) encountering her similarly down-and-out colleague (Totò). Taking place during a sing...
Wed 12 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Salaam Cinema
After an overwhelming response to an open audition for a film celebrating cinema’s 100th anniversary, Makhmalbaf decides to make a movie about the process. In some ways a playful, candid response to the type of metafictional “documenta...
Wed 19 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
A Moment of Innocence
At the age of 17 in pre-revolutionary Iran Makhmalbaf was imprisoned for stabbing a policeman. Twenty years later he sets out to restage the events with the collaboration of his original antagonist. A typically playful mixture of reali...
Wed 19 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Silence
Shot in Tajikistan, this humanist, virtually non-narrative portrait of a ten-year-old blind boy (Tahmineh Normatova) who works as a musical instrument tuner to help pay the rent, after his father has deserted the family and travelled t...
Wed 19 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Apple
Makhmalbaf directed this extraordinary debut feature at just 17 years of age, becoming the youngest director to compete in the official section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1998. Using a real-life story – that of a man who confined h...
Wed 26 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Two-Legged Horse
Shot and set in Afghanistan, Makhmalbaf’s last completed film is a bracing and confronting parable following the life of a poor young boy who earns a measly living piggybacking to school wealthy children who have lost legs in the war. ...
Wed 26 Jun
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Gabbeh
Originally intended as a documentary about a near-extinct tribe of nomads living on the steppes of south-eastern Iran, Makhmalbaf’s gorgeously designed and widely celebrated production evolved into a fictional love story extrapolated f...
Wed 3 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Day I Became a Woman
Meshkini fully emerged as a commanding and provocative force in Iranian cinema with her first feature, a remarkable portmanteau portrait of three women at various stages in their lives, shot on the island of Kish. Although the first st...
Wed 3 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Blackboards
This fluid, episodic narrative, following Kurdish refugees traversing the rocky mountain passes near the Iraqi border in northern Iran, focuses on teachers trying to find students as well as a group of old men in search of homes, as ar...
Wed 3 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Du côté de Robinson
A portrait of two young men (played by Aristide Demonico and Daniel Bart) on the hunt for fun and girls in cafes around Paris’ Place de Clichy, Eustache first completed film manages to reveal the despair and ennui that lies beneath the...
Wed 10 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Mes petites amoureuses
Eustache’s second and final narrative feature is a frank study of early adolescence based on the director’s own youth. His stand-in is 12-year-old Daniel (Martin Loeb), who falls in with a group of older boys after relocating from rura...
Wed 17 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Mother and the Whore
Described by Jonathan Rosenbaum as “a searing masterpiece that… makes us care deeply about what we’ve lost”, Eustache’s profoundly post- nouvelle vague drama focuses on three twenty-something Parisians in a bizarre love triangle. Alexa...
Wed 10 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
La Rosière de Pessac
This documentary diptych chronicles preparations amongst villagers in Pessac, Eustache’s hometown, for the annual crowning of its most “virtuous” young woman, a ceremony that has links back to the Medieval period. Upon completing the s...
Wed 17 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Compiled from unused footage donated by Jean-Luc Godard, Eustache’s third short is a guerrilla-style comic film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as a hustler out to make a quick buck and attract girls by taking a job as a street-corner Santa...
Wed 24 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Une sale histoire
The bifurcated structure of this unique film layers “magisterial experiments in staged/performed actuality” (Adrian Martin), with collaboration from Eustache’s friend Jean Nöel-Picq and actors Michael Lonsdale, Laurie Zimmer and Franço...
Wed 24 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Numéro zéro
This profile of Eustache’s grandmother, Odette Robert, captured across an uninterrupted conversation, celebrates a disappearing and largely overlooked way of life and its collective history. As Robert tells her life story over whiskey ...
Wed 24 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
L'Amour fou
Finally rescued from oblivion by a meticulous digital restoration using an array of sources (the original 35mm materials for the four-hour cut were lost in a fire in 1973), this is one of cinema’s legendary “lost films”, the missing li...
Wed 31 Jul
Federation Square, Flinders St & Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000