France – Three exhibitions by the Centro Cinema Cesena
The Centro Cinema Città di Cesena has been a partner of important French film festivals for many years. Thanks to its rich photographic funds, it creates thematic exhibitions that accompany the programmes, enriching with the precious images by set photographers the narration and the look on the making of a film and its various protagonists.
The exhibition Italian Western: images of a popular genre has just ended in Montpellier, where it was set on occasion of the 43th edition of Cinemed - Festival Cinema Mediterranéen (October 15-23).
The exhibit, composed of 40 B/W and colour photos, went together with the small tribute to 'spaghetti western' promoted by the festival in the special section “4 perles du western italien”, proposed as a ‘preamble’ to the forthcoming release of the French edition of the book 10,000 Ways To Die by Alex Cox.
Another exhibition is opening on occasion of the Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt – the longest-running and most important of the French festivals dedicated to Italian cinema: Dino Risi: comedy and beyond.
The 44th edition of the festival reminds the director with a wide retrospective and the exhibit evidences the mixture of the various genres frequented by Risi in his long career and the constancy in his collaboration with some actors –starting with Vittorio Gassman–, in a partnership that brought excellent results both on brilliant and dramatic subjects.
This, like the other exhibitions of the Centro Cinema Cesena, is curated by Antonio Maraldi, who this year is also called to Villerupt to be part of the jury.
A further exhibition will be on display in Toulouse on occasion of the 17th Rencontres du cinéma italien (November 26 – December 5): Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ in the unpublished photographs by Paul Ronald, exhibit recovered from last year when the festival did not take place due to COVID-19.
Cinemed - Festival Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier