Thursday 6 June 2024 at 6.30pm
In Italian with English subtitles
I Basilischi (the Lizards)
Director: Lina Wermüller
Screenplay: Lina Wermüller
Cast: Antonio Prtruzzi, Stefano Satta Flores, Sergio Ferrarino
Music: Ennio Morricone
Comedy/Drama/1963/1h 25min/B&W
Lina Wertmüller’s brilliant first feature chronicles the suffocating structures of small-town life in the south of Italy (Minervino Murge, located between Puglia and Basilicata) by focusing on a trio of young men who hang out and daydream, half-heartedly and clumsily stumbling toward unpromising adulthood.
Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker.
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Nick Walker has worked in the film industry, wrote film articles for The Guardian, is a film lecturer, programmer and host of film salon events in London and Rochester. Nick has a Master’s Degree in Film Culture.