Festival Cervello&Cinema Special edition
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Cervello&Cinema is back with a special edition for the Milano4mentalHealth project in partnership with the Welfare and Health Department of the Municipality of Milan. The Festival has received Lundbeck Italia’s unconditional contribution.
Three dates, three cult films, one theme: mental health narrated in its collective dimension, which recognizes its central role for the well-being of every individual. The films portray a wide range of behaviors, charcaterised by secret and often concealed pain, because the stigma plaguing mental health disorders is still deeply rooted everywhere. Behaviours, which are seemingly incomprehensible and with a common profound discomfort, will be explained and analysed by psychologists, neurologists and pharmacologists, to enhance awareness about of such a searing painbut also to highlight the emotional strength of frail human beings, who are often misunderstod.
Three Sundays: Oct. 13, Oct. 20 and Oct. 27 at 11 a. m.
Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, Sala Excelsior Milan.
Free admission with reservation subject to availability.
SUNDAY, October 13, 2024 11:00
The new solitudes
with Massimo Recalcati, psychoanalyst, director of IRPA (Research Institute of Applied Psychoanalysis) founder of Jonas Onlus (Center for Psychoanalytic Clinic for new symptoms). He has taught at the University of Urbino, Lausanne, Bergamo, Pavia and Verona and currently at the IULM in Milan. Author of numerous books, he collaborates with the daily newspaper «la Repubblica» and directs with Maurizio Balsamo the magazine «Frontiere della psicoanalisi».
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL Director: Craig Gillespie (USA 2007 – 106’) with Ryan Gosling and Emily Mortimer.
Lonely and introverted to the point of being invisible, Lars comes out of his shell only after he develops an emotional relationship with Bianca, a lifelike doll who facilitates the growing of bonds within his family and the community. Director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Nancy Olivier (2008 Oscar nominee for best screenplay) tell this bittersweet story with am uncompromised vision. Ryan Gosling delivers a sensitive, textured performance (2008 Golden Globes nominee for best actor in a brilliant film).
SUNDAY, October 20, 2024, 11:00
The long shadow of trauma
With Bernardo Dell’Osso, Full Professor of Psychiatry University of Milan; Director of the Department of Mental Health and Addictions ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco.
SPELLBOUND, director Alfred Hitchcock (USA 1945 -111’) with Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman and Michael Chechov.
One of the greatest successes in Hitchcock’s career, with multiple Oscar nominations, I Spellbound deals with the descriptioin of mental disorders in a unique way, approaching it as a resource to initiate a path of personal research, rather than as a pathology. It all takes place in the Villa Verde clinic ,where Dr. Constance Petersen, an extraordinary Ingrid Bergman, confronts the phobia of dark lines on a white field of Dr. Antonio Edwardes, played masterfully by Gregory Peck. A gem by the great director, to which the artist Salvador Dali wished to give his contribution by provinding an unforgettable dream sequence.
SUNDAY, October 27, 2024 11:00 am
Anatomy of an unhappy love
With Diego Fornasari, Full Professor of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Director of the Postgraduate School of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology.
WHO IS AFRAID OF VIGINIA WOOLF? Director Mike Nichols (USA 1966, 131′ ) with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis.
Winner of five Academy Awards, Who’s Afraid of Viginia Woolf? fiercely depicts the emotional desert in which the two main characters live. Director Mike Nichols wanted to use the limited palette of black and white with seemimgly out-of-context, canted close-ups to amplify the anxieties that torment Martha and George. Their home is less a house than a labyrinth, a battleground of verbal violence exacerbated by alcohol. A dysfunctional middle-aged couple unloads on the young guests, Nick and Honey, the animosity of their relationship, which then falls back into daily monotony. The leads deliver an unforgettable performance, which may have been autobiographical.
