100 years of Rossellini, from Cannes to Venice
From Cannes to Venice: the world of cinema is preparing to remember one its greatest masters, Roberto Rossellini, born 100 years ago (May 8,1906- June 3, 1977). Screening at Cannes will be the documentary by Marie Genin and Serge July, Il etait une fois... Rome ville ouverte, while the Venice Fest will present Rome, Open City in the version restored by the National Film Archives with financing by the city of Rome. The Rome Film Festival is also promising an exhibit based on Isabella Rossellini’s photographs in October.
Furthermore, RAI SAT is broadcasting another French documentary tonight, The Last Utopia: Television According To Rossellini by Jean-Luis Comolli. At the beginning of the 1970s, Rossellini broke with the traditional film industry to dedicate himself to an enormous encyclopedic project of historical films for television. Comolli’s film is dedicated to this extraordinary adventure, a French/Italian co-production (INA, Vivo Film in co-production with RAI Trade, in collaboration with RAI Teche and Istituto Luce, in participation with Cine Cinema, TV5 and in collaboration with the Roberto Rossellini Foundation).
Lastly, Sky satellite broadcaster will also air tonight My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a short documentary written by and starring Isabella Rossellini and directed by Guy Maddin. Presented at the Tribeca Film Festival of New York last April 29, the film provoked a bitter controversy between Isabella and her twin sister Ingrid, a professor of Italian literary history at Columbia University in New York, who called the documentary "desecrating, offensive ed opportunistic".
(Translated from Italian)
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