From Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 July, Piazza del Plebiscito in Ancona will host Scrivere col cinema – Incontri di cinema e letteratura, three evenings through which to investigate the relationship between cinema and literature.
“The relationship between film and literature is at least as old as cinema,” says Paolo Mereghetti, film critic for the “Corriere della Sera” and curator of the event. This relationship, so close and intricate, also carries with it some clichés that are difficult to eradicate, such as the one that would have it that from a good book you end up making a bad film while from a bad novel you can expect a good film. From Ford to Kubrick, from Truffaut to Visconti, the list of directors who have blown this theory to smithereens is very long’.
Among the guests at the event are some of the most interesting names in our cinema, who have been able to intertwine their careers with literature: Roberto Andò, director of The Prince’s Manuscript, which recounts the final exploits of the writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard; Maria Sole Tognazzi, Barbara Ronchi, respectively director and performer of Dieci Minuti, a film based on the novel by Chiara Gamberale, and PIF, who makes his cinema debut with the adaptation of the novel he wrote, La Mafia uccide solo d’estate, for which he received the 2014 David di Donatello award as Best Debut Director.
The project, promoted and supported by Fondazione Marche Cultura, Marche Film Commission, ATIM and the Municipality of Ancona, is organised by Cineventi.
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