The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Jealousy, Italian Style
When
Wed 1 Jun 2022
In one of her greatest comedic performances, Monica Vitti is Adelaide, a florist in a less-than-picturesque Rome enmeshed in a turbulent, farcical relationship with both Marcello Mastroianni’s adulterous communist bricklayer (a Cannes Best Actor-winning turn) and Giancarlo Giannini’s woebegone young pizzaiolo (hence the film’s international title, The Pizza Triangle). Co-writer and director Scola here infuses the commedia all’italiana with bitter irony and fourth wall-breaking formal sophistication; the cinematography is by the great Carlo Di Palma.
Also screening on Wed 1 June
Program
Facing Modernity: A Tribute to Monica Vitti
Modesty Blaise (1966) – Wed 25 May at 7pm
Red Desert (1964) – Wed 25 May at 9.15pm
L’Eclisse (1962) – Wed 1 June at 7pm
Jealousy, Italian Style (1970)– Wed 1 June at 9.15pm
About the program
Monica Vitti is one of the most iconic performers of European modernist cinema. She is best known for her extraordinary four-film collaboration with lover Michelangelo Antonioni in the early 1960s. The cultural and artistic impact of these four films – which launched her career – has, in the international realm at least, tended to obscure her much longer reign as an almost-unrivalled star of Italian comedy.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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