Elio Petri
Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress, The 10th Victim is a wild slice of kitschy 60s sci-spy eye-candy that anticipated reality TV decades before its time.
Based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story Seventh Victim, director Elio Petri's film depicts a 21st century in which war has been eradicated but murder has been legitimated in a state-sanctioned, corporate-sponsored gladiatorial contest called The Big Hunt. Andress and Mastroianni are players, hunter and prey, competing to win big bucks. And their lives. Naturally, they fall in love.
Tuesday 15th August at 9pm - Forum Theatre
Luca Guadagnino
The director of A Bigger Splash helms a passionate Italian summer romance headed by Armie Hammer and extraordinary star on the rise Timothée Chalamet.
Elio is a teenager in the early 1980s, and is intending to spend summer as he always has at his family's stunning villa in northern Italy: swimming, playing with his friends and soaking up the sun. But the latest research assistant to join his archaeologist father in his work inspires unexpected tremors in Elio. Oliver is handsome and aloof, and the initially irritated Elio becomes hopelessly, giddily smitten.
Jonas Carpignano
Scoring an award at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Jonas Carpignano's latest film is a heart-wrenching, ultra-realist tour of the outcast and refugee communities in Italy's south, led by fast-talking Roma swindler Pio Amato.
In sun-drenched Calabria, on the forgotten borders of the European refugee crisis, 14-year-old Romani hustler Pio is making an awkward and half-hearted entry into adulthood. Surrounded by his chaotic 15-strong family, and facing up to the paucity of opportunity and reality of distrust that comes with being who he is, Pio longs for the innocence of childhood, but is being inexorably drawn into the petty crime and low-level grift that is his heritage.
Friday 11th August at 1.30pm - Forum Theatre
Chris Shellen and Jeff Malmberg
Full of gorgeous Tuscan scenery and architecture, this new documentary from the team behind Marwencol is an affectionate ode to tradition and community in a rapidly changing world.
Every summer, for over half a century, residents of the tiny Italian village of Monticchiello (population: 136) have put on a truly unique play. A collaborative work in which each individual acts as themselves, this ever-evolving theatre is a conduit for discussing issues that affect the community, from changing gender norms to memories of the Second World War. But as financial pressures mount and the younger generations lose interest, the villagers’ unusual production takes on heightened significance. This is their story.
Thursday 10th August at 4pm - Forum Theatre and Sunday 20th August at 11am - Hoyts Melbourne
For more information and to check the full program visit the Melbourne International Film Festival website.
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