About The Event
Dear all,
Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB) invites you to its regular monthly screening of films for April 2025 on Saturday 19th.
The screening will be held on SATURDAY, 19th April, evening 3:30 PM onwards, at the Odissi Research Centre Auditorium, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar (Mo Bus Stop: Xavier Square).
april 19th Saturday
3.30 pm
Love Meetings (Comizi D`Amore)
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
(1964/92 mins/Italy/B&W)
5.40 pm
The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
(2013/142 mins/Italian/ Colour)
The first screening of the evening belongs to our classics section and presents Love Meetings (1964) by one the great filmmakers in history of world cinema, the Italian poet, writer and filmmaker, Mr. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). In this documentary Pasolini takes to the streets, town squares, beaches, factories and universities of 1960s Italy to gather thoughts of Citizens on hot topics - Gender Equality, Divorce, Marriage, Desire, Sex Work and Queer Desire. We see a cross section of people and places - from the breadth of the Italian Country - an emergence of a society where, despite rapid modernisation, hypocrisy and conformism rules.
The second film of the evening brings to you, “The Great Beauty” by one of the major contemporary Italian director Paolo Sorrentino. The film follows the life of 65 year old journalist Jep Gambardella. On his 65th birthday, he takes stock of his life, turning the lens onto his friends and himself, and looking past the gorgeous roman night life - he encounters the beauty of Rome, it’s landscape, the architectural marvels that speak across time. The performance of Toni Servillo is to savour in this tale of Felliniesque inspiration.
The film won the Oscar for the Foreign Film Category in 2014, the Golden Globe, at Talinn - it won the Grand Jury and best film awards.
