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Cinéma Cielo
Concept and Direction
DANIO MANFREDINI

Lighting Design
Maurizio Viani

Sound Design
Marco Olivieri

Cast
Patrizia Aroldi
Vincenzo Del Prete
Danio Manfredini
Giuseppe Semeraro

Producer
Emilia Romagna Teatro - Modena

In association with
Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri

SALLE LUDGER-DUVERNAY
Monument-National
Italian
E & F surtitles : 1h40

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MISERY & MOCKERY
Delinquent and offensive, the plays and novels of Jean Genet are highly theatrical. A master in the art of making a dazzling impression, an expert in the fake and the rhetorical (what better way to unmask shams and appearances), Genet would recognize himself in this irreverent, flamboyant adaptation by Danio Manfredini of his novel Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.
 
 
Forget Cinema Paradiso for here you are in Cinema Cielo, a former porno palace that is now the stage of a theatre where speech has disappeared, where the body rules, where solitudes seek each other, brush up against each other and then embrace. Clients come and go, and the spectators, who are sitting where the screen is located, watch the various entities that haunt the cinema. And they all make their appearance: Louis, nicknamed Divine (and magnificently played by Manfredini himself) and his many lovers plus a seductive assassin. This is a flashy yet genuine humanity that fantasizes about love. Here sex is a need, an escape, a commodity for sale in this divine recreation by an Italian master of the marginal..