(June 6, 2017) Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth with two of the biggest signatures of Italian cinema: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Kaos (Italy, 1984, 157’) will be screened with Chinese subtitles at the Auditorium Of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing on Wednesday, June 7 at 7PM. The film, played by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, takes place in four episodes and an epilogue. Common thread linking episodes is a black raven that pounds over Sicily of Pirandello with a bell hanging on his neck. It is based on four of the Short Stories for a Year by the nobel prize winner writer, plus a fifth story imagined by directors, but inspired by the novels “One Day” and “Talk with Characters”. The film won the Donatello David in 1985. Faithful to their poetry, the Taviani brothers chose four stories of fields and peasants, humiliated and offended by misery, injustice, and superstitions. (Red)
