Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis Continues This Weekend With Two Free Films

Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis concludes this weekend with the local premieres of two more Italian films. They are shown in their original language with English subtitles.

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http://www.italianfilmfestivalstlouis.com/index.html

Admission is FREE!

Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis continues this weekend with WHITE AS MILK – RED AS BLOOD and THE JEWEL

WHITE AS MILK, RED AS BLOOD screens Saturday, April 19 in the Jerzewiak Family Auditorium in the Lab Sciences Building on the campus of Washington University at 5:30pm

Leo is a typical sixteen-year-old: he likes to chat with friends, play soccer, joyride on his scooter and listen to his iPod. School is agonizing to him. Then, a new and “different” history and philosophy teacher arrives: he encourages the students to live deeply and follow their dreams. Leo feels he possesses the strength of a lion but is held back by a terrifying nemesis: the color white. Everything in his life that represents deprivation and loss is white. On the other hand, red is the color of love, passion, and blood; red is the colour of the girl of his dreams, Beatrice. Eventually, Leo discovers that she has an illness related to the colour white. His fear leads him to dig deep into himself, bleed and be reborn in order to understand that dreams cannot die; he must find the courage to believe in something greater than himself. WHITE AS MILK, RED AS BLOOD is based on the book of the same name by Alessandro D’Avenia.

THE JEWEL screens Saturday, April 19  in the Jerzewiak Family Auditorium in the Lab Sciences Building on the campus of Washington University at 8:00pm

A conglomerate food company operating on five continents, quoted in the stock exchange, and in continuous expansion in new markets: this is what is known as a ‘jewel’.  The founder, Amanzio Rastelli, placed his closest relatives–his son and his granddaugher–and trusted managers in key positions, despite their lack of formal training in business.  Management is unfit to face the challenges of today’s market and the company goes further and further into debt. It is not enough to falsify the financial statements, inflate sales, ask favors from politicians, nor pass the risk to investors through creative financing operations ever more daring.  The abyss has become too large and will swallow everyone. THE JEWEL stars Toni Servillo, Remo Girone, and Sarah Felberbaum

Screen Daily says THE JEWEL:

“…..is lifted by a steady directorial hand on the tiller, a finely judged string-based soundtrack that leads us on an uneasy dance through the action, and an inventive use of sets and locations.”

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