Pesaro features the complete works of Bellocchio
The 41st Pesaro International New Film Festival (25th June- 3rd July) will start, as Giovanni Spagnoletti, director of the festival, revealed, 'with a tribute to an Italian producer who looks to (far) East, Amedeo Pagani, and will end with the works of one of the most interesting Italian directors, Vito Zagarrio,' who will present Tre giorni d'anarchia ('three-day-long anarchy').
For its fortieth birthday, Pesaro has many excellent events planned, such as a retrospective on Jang Sun-woo (a leading artist of the Korean New Wave), and, on the European side, a section entirely dedicated to Finnish cinema, an obscure area despite the fame of the Kaurismaki brothers.
The festival will also show a retrospective of Kinotar productions, including seven documentaries by experinced directors, two fiction features, and the experimental collage by the world-famous artist Mika Taanila.
As for Spain, it is represented by one of its current masters, Vìctor Erice, who will present his films and give a cinema lesson. Since he begas as a critic in the 60's, it took him only three features (The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973; The South, 1992; Quince Tree of the Sun, 1992) to achieve worldwide fame.
However, the key-event of the Pesaro Festival is a retrospective of the complete works of Marco Bellocchio. This section, directed by Adriano Aprà and organised in collaboration with the Foundation-Experimental Film Centre-Cineteca nazionale, will give the public an opportunity to travel through forty years of Italian cinema. This panorama will be complemented by a seminar on Bellocchio and the launch of two books, including a book of pictures co-edited by the Experimental Film Centre. “I am touched by the accuracy and completeness of this retrospective,” Marco Bellocchio said, explaining, “there is a whole period in my personal life and in my work which has never been dealt with before and which critics have always skipped: my controversial collaboration with the psychologist Massimo Fagioli. I am not paranoid but really, since 1985, my personal choices have often been attacked. However, it has not prevented me from sticking to my anti-institutional ideas to this day.'
(Translated from Italian)
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