Film. “A difficult life” at the Quattro Mori

It concludes on Monday, April 27th at Cinema I 4 Mori, via Pietro Tacca, 16, at 9:15 pm, the project aimed at schools titled The Cinema of Maturity – The Short Century, carried out by the Provincial School Office of Livorno, in collaboration with the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa, the Center for the Study of Italian Comedy, with the contribution of Castagneto Banca 1910.

It was a project, the first held in our city, which saw a great participation of adults and students every Monday, who went through eight masterpieces of Italian cinema in the history of the twentieth century.

The film to be screened will be A Difficult Life (1961) by Dino Risi, with Alberto Sordi and Lea Massari; it will be introduced by Lorenzo Roggio, a young graduate in the History of Cinema, with a thesis on Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura”.

Present will be headmaster Cristina Grieco, the project’s creators Massimo Ghirlanda, teacher and cinema historian, and Chiara Tognolotti, teacher of Italian Cinema History at the University of Pisa, Davide Tovani, researcher and educational coordinator, and Serena Cassari, director of Cinema 4 Mori.

The Film – Winter 1944. Silvio Magnozzi, a Roman partisan, about to be killed by a German, is saved by Elena, daughter of a hotel owner. Silvio hides for a while in an abandoned mill, Elena brings him food, a relationship is born. One night the man disappears and we find him in Rome after the Liberation. He works in a Communist newspaper and one day is tasked with reporting on the gold of Dongo, which is very close to Elena’s village. Silvio calls, Elena insults him, but then shows up for the meeting and the two go to Rome together. From that moment on, the “idealist” Magnozzi will experience all the key events of Italy in those years. The war and the immediate aftermath seen fifteen years later. Some episodes of Life are in the great book of Italian cinema: the dinner at the prince’s house just as the announcement that the king has lost the referendum is made; Sordi trying, disastrously, to take an engineering exam, or drunk, in Viareggio, spitting at passing cars; and finally the final scene of the solemn slap given to the businessman that ends up in the pool.