Five films, five events with "Women's Cinema," which, starting today at the Argonauti Polytechnic in Olbia, will offer films and post-screening reflections on the female universe explored by the seventh art.
We start tonight with “Hidden Figures” (2016) by Theodore Melfi: the film, based on the book “Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the true story of African-American mathematician, scientist and physicist Katherine Johnson, who collaborated with NASA challenging racism and calculating the trajectories for the Mercury Program and the Apollo 11 mission. The cast, together with Taraji Penda Henson in the role of the protagonist Katherine Goble-Johnson, includes Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and Mahershala Ali.
On June 24th, it will be the turn of Fred Zinnemann's "Giulia," a 1977 film inspired by Lillian Hellman's autobiographical novel "Pentimento" (1973), which tells the story of the friendship between two women against the backdrop of World War II and Nazism. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three; it stars Jane Fonda as Giulia and Vanessa Redgrave as Lillian Hellman, a role that earned the great English actress both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
On July 1st, the Argonauti Polytechnic will host a screening of "Frida," a 2002 biopic directed by Julie Taymor and centered on the tormented private life of the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, played by actress Salma Hayek. Then, on July 8th, it will be the turn of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017), written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film, which tells the story of a mother determined to obtain justice for her daughter, who was raped and burned alive in Missouri, stars Oscar-winning actors Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell, along with Woody Harrelson.
Finally, on July 22, “Nomadland” (2020), written, directed, co-produced, and edited by Chloé Zhao. The film adaptation of the book “Nomadland” (2017) by journalist Jessica Bruder, played by Frances McDormand – who won another Oscar for this film – tells the story of Fern, a woman who, after losing her husband and her job during the recession that hit the US between 2007 and 2013, leaves the industrial town of Empire, Nevada, to cross the United States in her van, meeting other people who, like her, have chosen or been forced to live a nomadic life.
Meet at the Argonauti Polytechnic on Via Garibaldi at 8:00 PM. Admission is free.
