Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi
Tuesday at the movies! / The Elephant man @ ODEON
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 20:30
The Elephant Man by David Lynch (USA, GB, 1980, 125′)
at the Cinema Odeon in Florence. Free admission.
London, second half of the nineteenth century. Because of a very rare disease, neurofibromatosis, which gave him monstrous appearance, the young John Merrick is exposed as “elephant man” in the circus of Bytes, an alcoholic who lives leveraging its monstrosity and treats him like a beast. And ‘here that Merrick is discovered by Dr. Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital in convincing Bytes cederglielo for some time so that you can study and treat. The Elephant Man is introduced to Victorian London, although because of his monstrous appearance will continue to be a victim of violence and humiliation.
Tuesday at the movies!
The film show is realted to the exhibitions Francis Bacon and The Thirties, organised in conjunction with FST–Mediateca Toscana.
Cinema Odeon, admission free, original language with Italian subtitle.
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