Italian Film Screenings with English Subtitles at Italian Centre, Chanakyapuri > 2 pm on 4th December 2010

Time : 2:00 pm

Entry : Annual Membership Required ( Around Rs. 1000, 2 colour photographs and Photocopy of any Identity Card )

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Place : Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg (entry from Nyaya Marg), Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 21

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Event Details : Screening of the following films :

2:00 pm : IL CARAVAGGIO: LA VITA ATTRAVERSO LE OPERE

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This 25 minute long film is about the genius, the art and life of Caravaggio, whose works are preserved in the main museums of the world. His masterpieces brought revolutionary and innovative vision, which was to influence the art of painting through the centuries…

2:25 pm : CARAVAGGIO

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The film is a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Jarman's film is involved with the love triangle of Caravaggio (Nigel Terry), Lena (Tilda Swinton) and Ranuccio (Sean Bean) and dwells upon Caravaggio's use of street people, drunks and prostitutes as models for his intense, usually religious paintings (see the article on the painter for examples). As for Caravaggio's use of contemporary dress for his Biblical figures, Jarman depicts his Caravaggio in a bar lit with electric lights or another character using an electronic calculator.

The film is notable for its texture and attention to detail, the intense performances and the idiosyncratic humor. By presenting Caravaggio as one of the founders of the chiaroscuro technique, it helped give expression to the legend that was beginning to form around him. Jarman's Caravaggio also suggests that his legend ultimately eclipsed his enormous talent.

Language : Italian with English Subtitles

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