Virtual Film Screening: 'Dante,' by Italian Director Pupi Avati Tonight
The Italian Program of the U of A is co-sponsoring the screening of Pupi Avati's penultimate film, Dante (2022), with the Italian Consulate of Italy in Houston. The event is free and open to the public. The screening will take place on at 7 p.m. Central today, Tuesday, Dec. 5, via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/4nu8pmtc.
There will be English subtitles. The evening will open with a very brief (90-second) welcome by Avati himself. For a synopsis of the film, see below. For questions, email professor Calabretta-Sajder (calabret@uark.edu). Many thanks to the Consulate in Houston for procuring the rights to screen the film!
Synopsis (take from the Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles):
The movie tells the story of Dante Alighieri through the words and interpretation of Giovanni Boccaccio, who in 1350 embarks on a journey to find Antonia Alighieri, Dante's daughter, to offer her a symbolic sum of money in reparation for the pain her family was put through, and along the way, he retraces the salient episodes of Dante's life, offering us the story of a poet who is among the greatest and best known in the world.
Directed by Pupi Avati
94 minutes, 2022, color
Italian, with English subtitles
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Contacts
Ryan Calabretta Sajder, associate professor
World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
479-575-2951,
calabret@uark.edu
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