Rosa pietra stella Film Discussion

To access the live discussion, please purchase a ticket and you will receive a Zoom invite on Sunday, May 29, 2022 via email. The Zoom info will be sent to the email provided when purchasing a ticket.
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Film Description:

Italian cinema still brings us beautiful, contemporary Neorealist films. Rosa Pietra Stella is the lively fiction feature debut from documentary director Marcello Sannino. The protagonist is 30-year-old Carmela (the title of the film refers to a line from a song with the same title: “Rose, rock, star”), who scrapes together a living doing a range of odd jobs. Her situation becomes more complicated when a deal to provide visas to illegal migrants through a lawyer goes badly wrong, leading to her being evicted from her home along with her mother and her eleven-year-old daughter, Maria. The story portrays everyday life and survival in Portici, the old, multicultural part of Naples where Sannino himself grew up. With a superb eye for local details and a great cast, he tells a nuanced, unsentimental, empathetic tale.

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Join us for a live discussion of the movie Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 11:00 AM on Zoom.

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