Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi

Tuesday, May 8, 20.30
at Cinema Odeon in Firenze

Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion
(USA, 1996, ‘144)

Adapted from the novel by Henry James, the film set in the early 1900s tells the story of the young American heiress Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) traveling to Florence. Here she falls in love with Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich), a man of the world and an unscrupulous art lover who marries Isabel for her money. The marriage is a failure and Isabel feels overwhelmed by the hypocrisy and formalism of her husband, in stark contrast to her independent spirit. A comparison between American society, full of energy and attention to the essentials, and European society, decadent and frivolous.

 

Tuesday at the movies! Discovering new worlds
A retrospective of films linked to the Americans in Florence and American Dreamers exhibitions, organised in conjunction with FST–Mediateca Toscana.

Cinema Odeon, admission free, original version with Italian subtitle.

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