Screening of "Easy!" by Francesco Bruni

The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute
Silvio Marchetti
is pleased to invite you to 
the screening of
 
 
  Easy!
(Scialla!)
 (95 min, 2011)
 
 
  by Francesco Bruni
 
 
Tuesday, November 27th
6pm
Italian Cultural Institute 500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 Chicago, IL 60611
 
Bruno Beltrame has let it all hang out, for quite a while. All that's left of his old talent as a writer is just enough to ghost-write "other people's books", biographies of football players or television… Show more personalities. His passion for teaching has given way to an apathetic routine of tutoring equally apathetic students, including fifteen-year old Luca, who is as ignorant as the others, but vivacious and irreverent. One day the boy's mother turns up, like a ghost from the past, revealing a secret that turns Bruno's life upside down: Luca is his son, a son he knew nothing about... And that is not all: the woman is about to leave for a six-month job as a volunteer in Africa, and the boy cannot follow her there. She asks Bruno to take the boy in, and take care of him, but without revealing his true identity to him. A wonderfully touching and comedic debut feature from the award winning screenwriter of The First Beautiful Thing. 
 
In Italian with English subtitles. Light refreshments will be served.
 
Reservations kindly suggested. 
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Special thanks to Acqua Smeraldina
 

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