Venice in Seoul: the festival’s Italian films fly to South Korea

by Vittoria Scarpa

24/12/2012 - Among the films presented until January 6 are Dormant Beauty by Bellocchio, It Was the Son by Ciprì and The Interval by Di Costanzo

The same year the Venice Film Festival crowned Korean Kim Ki-duk with a Golden Lion for Pietà, Italian films presented during the prestigious event have flown to Seoul. From December 12 through January 6, 2013, a selection of eleven feature films, among which four classics, will be presented in South Korea within the context of Venice in Seoul, an event organized by the festival itself in collaboration with the Italian Institute for Culture and the Korean capital’s film library with the aim of promoting and diffusing Italian cinema across the world.

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The Korean public will be given a chance to discover some of the biggest titles shown during Venice’s 69^th edition in September of this year: from those three in competition – Dormant Beauty by Marco Bellocchio (photo), It Was the Son by Daniele Ciprì and Un giorno speciale by Francesca Comencini – to some of those offered in the Horizons section, like Balancing Act [+see also:
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Seoul will also be treated to some of Italian cinema’s classics – Anita Garibaldi by Goffredo Alessandrini (1952), Il caso Mattei by Francesco Rosi (1972), Pigpen by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969) and Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini (1950) – as well as a selection of pieces of work from the 80! retrospective organized in celebration of the event’s eightieth anniversary. Among these, The Brigand by Renato Castellani (1961), Closed Pages by Gianni Da Campo (1968), but also French Dieu a besoin des hommes by Jean Delannoy (1950) and two Czech films, A Bagful of Fleas by Vera Chytilová and Mud Covered City by Václav Táborský (both from 1963).