28 July 2015 – Roma città aperta, Paisà, Germania anno zero, L’amore, Stromboli terra di Dio, Viaggio in Italia, La Macchina ammazzacattivi, La Paura, India… Roberto Rossellini relives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, through his most famous films. The “Rossellini Project” is an initiative of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna and CSC-Cineteca Nazionale. The project kicks off today and will end on Wednesday, August 5, screening nine works of the great Italian director. First launched during the Cannes Film Festival, the “Rossellini Project” has already been presented in many European capitals and now arrives in Argentina as part of the Year of Italy in Latin America. The project, a real tribute to the director, screenwriter and film producer that was Rossellini, one of the most important directors in the history of Italian cinema, kicks off with the screening of the 1945 film starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi: “Roma Città Aperta”. The film is one of the most famous and representative movies of the Italian neorealist movement, so much so that Otto Preminger claimed that “the history of cinema is divided into two eras: one before and one after Roma Città Aperta”. Three of the films in the retrospective (Viaggio in Italia, Stromboli, La paura) star Ingrid Bergman, outstanding actress and Rossellini’s life partner, and this year marks the centenary of her birth.
