Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 117: Sat Apr 27

The Return of the Prodigal Son/Humiliated (Straub/Huillet, 2001-03): ICA Cinema, 2.15pm


This 35mm screening is part of the Jean-Marie Straub/Danielle Huillet season at the ICA Cinema. You can see the full details  of the season here.

ICA Cinema introduction:
The diptych The Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated (Il Ritorno del figlio prodigo / Umiliati) (2001–03) is a segue from Workers, Peasants (2001) and Straub and Huillet’s third film based on the writings of Elio Vittorini. The film returns to Vittorini’s Marxist novel The Women of Messina(1973) about a community founded after the Second World War by workers and peasants from different regions of Italy. In the film, the commune is threatened by the pressures of a restructured post-war world, of its laws and politics, and by the forces of history from which they had hoped to protect themselves.

Incantati (2002) is a re-edited sequence from the end of Humiliated.
 
Dolando (2003), was made as a gesture from the filmmakers to their crew. One of the film’s actors, Dolando Bernardini – who also starred in From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979) – sings a capella three verses from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581).
 
The Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated will be screened in its original 35mm format.

Programme:
 
The Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated (Il Ritorno del figlio prodigo / Umiliati), Dirs. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Italy, 2001 – 03, 64 min., Italian with English subtitles.
 
Incantati, Dirs. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 2002, Italy/France/Germany, 35mm, 6 min., Italian with English subtitles.
 
Dolando, Dirs. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 2003, Italy/France/Germany, 7 min., Italian with English subtitles.

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