Sunday 8 November, 4,30pm
In Italian with English subtitles
The UK Jewish Film Festival in association with ICI London celebrates the 50th anniversary of this multi-award winning iconic film by Vittorio de Sica, based on the historical novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Ferrara, 1939. Owned by a wealthy, intellectual Jewish-Italian family, the garden of the Finzi Continis is a sylvan sanctuary in the ducal town. When the tennis club, observing Mussolini’s new anti-Semitic laws, drops the Finzi Continis from its rolls, Micol Finzi Contini and her brother Alberto make a tentative gesture towards ending their aristocratic isolation. They invite friends into their estate to play tennis on long, hot summer afternoons. De Sica’s classic film deftly depicts the slow build of fascist dogma, and the ways Jews tried – and ultimately failed – to insulate themselves from its effects.
The special screening will be followed by an online panel discussion with lead actress Dominique Sanda (Micol Finzi Contini), film critic and author Peter Bradshaw, and ICI Director Katia Pizzi. Chaired by Chief Executive of Film London, Adrian Wootton OBE.
More info and tickets HERE