Italian Movie: Mid-August Lunch, Feb 10 2011 @ Westgate

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Highly recommended. Don’t miss this movie – it’s one of the best and funniest Italian movies of the last decade.
Playing tonight at Westgate at 8pm
Free seating, but requires membership to the Italian Institute of Culture

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, ‘Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities’. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That’s when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni’s door in the most unexpected way…

Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch)
Directed by: Gianni Di Gregorio
Starring: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Cali’
Running time: 72 minutes
Comedy
English Subtitles

Rating by the Kenya Film Censorship Board: GE (General Exhibition)

Film festival: Images de France, Feb. 14-20 2010 @ Alliance Francaise/Silverbird Westgate

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Download the Festival programme

Images de France, a week of French cinema

The Festival will offer to the Kenyan public very recent award-winning movies. The screenings will take place in the auditorium of Alliance Francaise, and for the first time in the Silverbird movie theatre at Westgate.

The screenings will take place from Monday to Friday at 10am for school groups and 18h for all age groups at Alliance Francaise, and 18h and 20h30 at Silverbird Cinema Westgate.

On Saturday at 11am at Alliance Francaise, and 16h and 20h30 at Silverbird Westgate. On Sunday at 16h at Silverbird Westgate.

Entrance is free.

The movies that will be screened are:

– Tournée de Mathieu Amalric, Best Director Award at the Cannes film Festival 2010, 6 César Award nominations 2011.
– London River by Rachid Bouchareb, Silver Bear for the best actor to Sotigui Kouyaté at the Berlin Film Festival 2009.
– L’Arnacoeur de Pascal Chaumeil, 5 César Award nominations 2011.
– De l’autre côté du lit by Pascale Pouzadoux.
– Je l’aimais, by Zabou Breitman.
– Welcome by Philippe Lioret, 10 César Award nominations.
– Le Refuge, by François Ozon, Special Prize of the Jury at the San Sebastian Festival 2010.
– Le petit Nicolas, by Laurent Tirard.
– Un Prophète, by Jacques Audiard, Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes film festival 2009, Prix Louis Delluc 2009, 9 Césars in 2010 for best film, best director, best screenplay, and best actor for Tahar Rahim.
– Princes et Princesses, by Michel Ocelot.

Italian Movie: Wild Blood, Jan 27 2011 @ Westgate

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Thursday, 27th January 2011 at Westgate – 8pm

Sanguepazzo (2008) (Wild Blood)
Directed by: Marco Tullio Giordana
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Alessio Boni, Luca Zingaretti, Maurizio Donadoni, Tresy Taddei
Running time: 147 minutes
Drama, History
English subtitles

Rating by the Kenya Film Censorship Board: ABOVE 16

At dawn on April 30th, 1945, five days after Liberation, two blood-soaked corpses were found in the outskirts of Milan. Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida – executed by partisans. Idolized by the public, a famous – and infamous – couple on and off screen, Valenti and Ferida were stars of the Fascist-endorsed cinema. Drug addicts, with a tendency towards sexual promiscuity, their private lives were as wild as the villainous, depraved characters they portrayed.

ENTRANCE FREE for members of the Italian Institute of Culture
IIC yearly membership: Adults – K.Shs. 1000/- Students (with proof) – K.Shs. 500/-
For further information: (020) 4451268 / 0733 624834
Seating limited to 120, First-come-first-served