Fwd: Cabriolet Film Festival 2019
Principessa Nelly
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 4:56:25 PM
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Subject: Cabriolet Film Festival 2019
We have the pleasure to invite you to the 11th Cabriolet Film Festival which will screen, like every year, a number of Italian short films
7-8-9 June 2019, , h. 20,00, St Nicolas stairs, Gemmayze
This year, for the “Untold” theme, we will also screen “Ma l’amore c’entra?”, a documentary movie by Elisabetta Lodoli.
The screening will take place at the director’s presence, on Friday, June 7th at 4 pm in Theatre Gemmayzeh, and will be followed by a Q&A session
FREE ENTRANCE
MA L’AMORE CENTRA?
(IS IT ABOUT LOVE?)
by Elisabetta Lodoli
Violence against women in personal relationships: in Is It About Love? three men looking for a change speak out. Paolo, Luca and Giorgio (all pseudonyms) were violent with their wife or partner, but their violence frightened them, also because the women who endured it were expecting a change. Their violence wasn't bloody, it wasn't the kind we hear about on TV or read about in the papers, but the pain they inflicted on themselves and their families was nonetheless severe. They are three 'normal' men, like all of us. Their stories are of every day life. Yet deeply unsettling. Different in age, origins and personality, their lives are tied by one common problem, which brought them to cross paths in the place where they went searching for help: the LDV center (Let's free ourselves from Violence) in Modena. But the film is not a documentary therapy, nor about the LDV center: it is the tale of three men, gathered by the three women who interviewed them. The dramatic development of the film is focused on the moment in which the three men's lives 'exploded' and their violence was experienced and recognized. The journey of the protagonists takes place in an imaginary space, domestic but dreamlike at the same time, where the three men question themselves among suspended objects and under intermittent lighting. They all have an open challenge ahead: the effort to change, to listen to themselves and to others, which perhaps will last a lifetime, and which will involve their partners as well; a reflection on conflict in relationships and the sentimental education that affects us all, men and women alike.