From Page to Screen: CineClub at the Institute
Screening of the film “The Past is a Foreign Land” (Il passato e’ una terra straniera, 2008, 120 min.), directed by Daniele Vicari.
Italian Cultural Institute
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450
Thursday, January 10, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
From Page to Screen: Cineclub at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Introduced by Professors of Italian from Universities throughout Chicago, the films included in this series are based on novels. A discussion in English follows each screening.
Screening of the film “The Past is a Foreign Land” (Il passato e’ una terra straniera, 2008, 120 min.), directed by Daniele Vicari
Based on the novel of the same name by Gianrico Carofiglio
Introduced by: Professor Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois at Chicago
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.
In Italian with English subtitles
Free and open to the public