Presentation and Screening
Movie
A strange, forty-something man, ironically nicknamed “the Professor”, lives the wretched life of an all-round servant in a shady house of high-class call girls in Rome. He starts visiting one of the prostitutes who has been hospitalized after an attempted suicide. A delicate story ensues between these two.This story, on which the film “News from the Excavation” is based, was written in the immediate Italian postwar but published in 1964 by Franco Lucentini. Directed by Emidio Greco and interpreted by some of the most acclaimed actors of today’s TV and cinema, Giuseppe Battiston and Ambra Angiolini, the film was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2010 and distributed to Italian theaters in 2011.
Emidio Greco died at the end of 2012, Franco Lucentini having preceded him in death ten years earlier. Its presentation at the Italian Cultural Institute is meant as a commemoration both of the director and of the author. It will be introduced by Mauro Lucentini, the brother and one of the biographers of Franco Lucentini, himself an author and a newspaper correspondent in New York.