Marin Italian

Roberto Rossellini Centenary

My Dad is 100 Years Old

Francesco, giullare di Dio

When:  Aug. 4, 8, 9, 10  See marin italian events calendar

This year marks the 100th birthday of Italian master Roberto Rossellini. In celebration the San Rafael Film Center presents a beautifully restored print of one of his most celebratory films, as well as a strange and wonderful short film tribute made by his daughter Isabella in collaboration with Canadian director Guy Maddin. The filmmaker mostly closely associated with Italian Neorealism, Roberto Rossellini was also the most straightforward and uncompromising in his depiction of reality.

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San Rafael Film Center, which Rossellini directed just five years after his postwar masterpiece Roma Citta Aperta' Open City, tells the story of the medieval saint in simple and joyous vignettes. The Italian title is Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester), and for a film about faith it is less concerned with God than with humility, folly, compassion and happiness. Co-written by Federico Fellini and cast with real monks, it portrays the quest for spiritual enlightenment in terms as much Buddhist as Christian. In Italian with English subtitles. (Italy 1950)  8.0/10 rating on IMDB!

As writer and soloist of My Dad is 100 Years Old, [search-wikipedia:Isabella Rossellini] channels memories of her father through the surreal imagination of director Guy Maddin. Isabella’s fond memory of her father as a giant belly is augmented by her witty impersonations of figures who crossed her father’s path), including Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Charles Chaplin, Federico Fellini and her mother, Ingrid Bergman. (Canada 2005) Program 103 min.

San Rafael Film Center 

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