Italian Film Festival Closes with ‘Amacord’

Amacord, the 1973 comedic drama from renowned director Federico Fellini, will be the final movie screened at the Italian Classics Film Festival hosted on campus.

The film will be shown on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. in Room 719 of Fisher Hall.

Amacord offers a carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period and satirizes Fellini’s own youth. He turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies and political subterfuge.

“The film festival was a success this semester, so we are planning to continue with another series in the spring that covers Italian films from the ‘70s and ‘80s,” said Dr. Carla Lucente, associate director of the Center for International Relations and Honorary Consul of Italy/Pittsburgh. “The audiences for the films have consisted of students who want to learn about Italian culture, politics and social life during certain time periods, but also non-student attendees from all walks of life, nationality, ethnicity and professional backgrounds.”

Details for the spring film series will be available as plans are finalized.

The Italian Classics Film Festival is sponsored by the Honorary Consulate of Italy/Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the 40th Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures and Duquesne’s Center for International Relations.

All festival screenings are open to the campus community and the general public. For more information, contact ir@duq.edu or italyconsulpgh@gmail.com.