Italian Film Week – Beyond Neorealism

[ K trendy NEWS Yoon Sang-gil's Movie Talk Talk ] After World War II, Italian filmmakers had a great influence on filmmakers around the world by portraying the shadows of reality ravaged by war. Neorealism is the name given to a limited group of Italian films that persisted in the postwar decade, but without a clear definition. This new form of realism, however, has had a profound influence on cinema all over the world, including in Europe, until now. Represented by Vittorio Desica's Bicycle Thief (1948), these films capture the problems of ordinary people and their real lives in an unartificial way. It still poses important questions about how we influence each other. In this regard, the Korea Cinematheque Council is holding a meaningful special film exhibition. This is 'Italian Film Week - Beyond Neorealism', which will be held at Seoul Art Cinema from October 19th to 23rd. This event commemorates the screening of a digitally restored version of . This 'Italian Film Week - Beyond Neorealism' starts with 'Bicycle Thief' and has five major works that can gauge the transformation of Italian cinema until the 80's, 'Sweet Life' (Federico Fellini, 1960), 'Red Desert' ( Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964), (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970), and (Ermano Olmi, 1988) are screened. Filmmakers, including Vittorio Desica, gradually expanded their awareness of the problems of neo-realism and created their own film world. The four films screened together with clearly show how each director created a new world beyond neorealism by recognizing the problems of neorealism. Fellini's fragile beauty, which showed the loss of purity and value, the image of mass media and consumer society during the revival of Italy in the 1960s, Antonioni's sensual mise-en-scène depicting a new search for modern life with desert and color, and Bertolucci's heartless and This is an opportunity to check out the most brilliant moments of Italian film history with the melodrama of Ermano Olmi, who has tried to transform a novel adaptation with a professional actor, away from the sharp perception of reality and the existing neorealist work method. 출처 : K trendy NEWS(http://www.k-trendynews.com)