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Bernardo Bertolucci's LA LUNA

SPECIAL REVIVAL SCREENING!
STAR MATTHEW BARRY IN PERSON!
Bernardo Bertolucci's LA LUNA

David Savage in collaboration with Iconic Linx and Anthology Film Archives presents a rare screening of Oscar-winning Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's lushly beautiful film LUNA, on 35mm.

Life imitates opera in Bernardo Bertoluccis Oedipal melodrama, set in disco-era Rome. An American opera diva (Clayburgh) moves to Italy with her troubled adolescent son Joe (Matthew Barry) after the sudden death of her husband, the boys presumed father. While celebrating Joes thirteenth birthday, she discovers hes developed a heroin habit and has fallen in with a rough crowd. As her attempts to rescue him take a disturbing turn, from smothering affection to incest, mother and son escape Rome on a journey through Italy to find Joes real father.

LA LUNA is not a movie about why the mother acts in this way. It is a movie fascinated that she does act in this way. It is melodramatic. Operatic. At the end, the music of Verdi, very loud, over the climax, literally eats the bourgeois drama! Bernardo Bertolucci

Bertolucci has sprung his gourd this time. [;;H];;es got a soap opera and a Freudian case history (traditional enemies in their natural states) and hes forcing them to copulate! Roger Ebert

Bertoluccis Jungian remake of HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL! [;;];; Loud, vulgar, and frequently obnoxious, the film nevertheless has a perfect integrity in its excesses. This is filmmaking from the groin, unabashed and unrestrained. Dave Kehr, CHICAGO READER

This event is organized and presented by film journalist and programmer David Savage.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by David Savage, with the films star, Matthew Barry, as well as Giulia DAgnolo Vallan, U.S. film curator, Venice Film Festival, and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Dept. of Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art.

SCREENING DETAILS:
Bernardo Bertolucci
LA LUNA
1979, 142 min, 35mm.
With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori, Fred Gwynne, Alida Valli, and Roberto Benigni.
- Mon, April 25 at 7:00pm.