Sixth session of the Carte Blanche to Luis Miguel Cintra, a films, talks and conference programme that accompanies the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Little Theatre of the World. This session will feature a screening of Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia (Journey into Italy, 1954).

5 OCT | SUN | 17:00

VIAGGIO IN ITALIA | Journey into Italy

Roberto Rossellini | ITA | 1954 | 85'

"Novelty is everywhere. Form, content, acting, photography, music. Journey into Italy is the first film to take a feeling and its variations as its theme. Hence the entirely musical construction of the work, organised around the themes of life and death... Journey into Italy is the film of a state of mind, of a difficulty of being (like two people) that ends up becoming, by force of circumstance, the dignity of being, pure and simple. (...) Enzo Serafin's admirable cinematography and Renzo Rossellini's music contribute to this novelty and audacity. Journey into Italy may seem less unusual than Fellini's La Strada. I think it's more original and daring, without sentimentality or literature. Like Francesco giullare di Dio, like Europa 51, like Joan of Arc, Journey into Italy is unlike anything else in cinema. Rossellini's work is "outside", "on the margins", and each of his films is a total effort to free the screen from past bondages." (François Truffaut)