Screening

This screening includes ALL SCREWED UP/TUTTO A POSTO E NIENTE IN ORDINE

Still image from All Screwed Up/Tutto a posto e niente in ordine.

Date and time:: Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 7 pm; $5

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In this hilarious satire that covers everything from gentrification, immigration, class mobility, and gender politics, workers from southern Italy relocate to Milan and adjust to life in the city.

5X: Lina Wertmüller

A celebration of the iconoclastic Italian director who was the first woman ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.

With an unmistakable style, Lina Wertmüller approached filmmaking with a frenetic energy and opinionated nature. Her films are as provocative as they are genre-defying. Writing the screenplays for all her films and working with a repetitive cadre of actors—most notably Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato—Wertmüller defined herself as a idiosyncratic and prolific talent never afraid to tackle the heady politics of the 1970s. A professed leftist, many of her films depend on anti-fascist sentiment while also bending toward anarchy. Wertmüller was a political filmmaker, but one who refused to be defined by rigid dogma or ideological boundaries. Finding deep inspiration in the feminist movement of her time and the mounting political turbulence of Italy in the '70s, she used satire to expose the fault lines cracking under the weight of modernity’s pressures on outdated social structures. Her masterpiece Seven Beauties saw her become the first woman nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards in 1975; another woman would not be nominated for the same award until Jane Campion in 1993.

5X: Lina Wertmüller is generously supported by the Department of French and Italian's Peter and Julia Conaway Bondanella Fund and the Institute for European Studies.

An anarchically outrageous comedy, All Screwed Up is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love & Anarchy (1973) and Swept Away (1974). All Screwed Up tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in a communal home with other migrant workers, including some combative love interests. Their dreams of wealth devolve into a series of slapstick adventures, from an uproarious attempt at petty crime to the daily indignities of life in a restaurant kitchen. A pointed satire that skewers the illusion of upward mobility, All Screwed Up is essential viewing for fans of Lina Wertmüller. With exuberant and biting performances from Diberti and Bignamini, it's a comedy whose laughs stick in your throat. [108 min; comedy, drama; Italian with English subtitles]

"[All Screwed Up] haunts with a hideous grin." — Mike Petryni, Arizona Republic

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5X: Lina Wertmüller is generously supported by the Department of French and Italian's Peter and Julia Conaway Bondanella Fund and the Institute for European Studies.