On the occasion of Filming Italy Los Angeles 2025, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles in collaboration with Agnus Dei – Tiziana Rocca, present a screening of Eternal Visionary (Italy/Belgium, 2024, 112′) by Michele Placido, followed by a conversation with Michele Placido and the main actor, Fabrizio Bentivoglio moderated by Gian Maria Annovi, professor at the University of Southern California.
1934. On a train to Stockholm, where he will shortly receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Luigi Pirandello relives his fascination with the figures in his life who also inspired his art. Eternal Visionary concentrates on one phase of Pirandello’s career in order to show the playwright’s more intimate side, trapped between his muse and lover Marta Abba and his wife Antonietta, in a vivid and authentic portrait of an eternal visionary.
Movie in Italian with English subtitles.
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Thursday, February 20 2025 | 5:30 pm
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