14 July, 2015 – Ernesto Picciafuoco, an agnostic with a tormented personality, learns from a priest that his mother will be beatified. The fact makes it inappropriate that the future saint became mother to a non-believer. Ernesto’s son, who doesn’t want to be discriminated against in school, decides to attend the religion course. For the cycle of Italian Cinema – Stories of faith and religion, the Italian Cultural Institute of Sao Paulo presents “My Mother’s Smile” by Marco Bellocchio. The screening will be introduced by Oscar Marzorati at the Hall of the Institute tomorrow at 7.30pm. Released in 2002, the film stars Sergio Castellitto, Piera Degli Esposti, Jacqueline Lustig, Gigio Alberti, and Gianfelice Imparato. Among the prominent figures of Italian cinema, Bellocchio was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011. (Red)
