(Photo courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma)
The preview of American Pastoral is the first event of the eleventh edition of the Rome Film Festival under the artistic direction of Antonio Monda, produced by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma chaired by Piera Detassis. The film will be presented in collaboration with Eagle Pictures to ten days before the event, Monday 3 October at 21, at Cinema Barberini.
The preview of American Pastoral is the first event of the eleventh edition of the Rome Film Festival under the artistic direction of Antonio Monda, produced by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma chaired by Piera Detassis. The film will be presented in collaboration with Eagle Pictures to ten days before the event, Monday 3 October at 21, at Cinema Barberini.
American Pastoral is directed and starring Ewan McGregor, his directorial debut after working with masters of George Lucas (in the saga of "Star Wars"), Tim Burton (Big Fish), Woody Allen (Cassandra's Dream) Roman Polanski's (The Ghost Writer): the Scottish actor will be in Rome to present the film at the side of the heroine Jennifer Connelly, premio Oscar per A Beautiful Mind.
The film based on the masterpiece by Philip Roth – Pulitzer prize – is the story of Seymour Levov, He said "the Swedish", a man who in life had it all: beauty, career, money, an ex-wife Miss New Jersey and a long-desired baby, the slowly whose world falls apart when his daughter, now a teenager, It accomplishes a terrorist act that causes a victim. How is it that a tragedy like this ever happened precisely in Swedish, the
person throughout his life he embodied the American Dream? Where did wrong?
All we wonder if Ewan McGregor was able to transpose it sacred cow in the seventh art in order to impress the audience, especially one who read the novel.
So begins the 11th edition of the Rome Film Festival which it was presented today by Piera Detassis, President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma and the Artistic Director Antonio Monda to the crowded auditorium of the Petrassi Hall Auditorium Parco for Musica in Rome. A lot of news and confirmations of this new way of seeing the Feast Festival or if you prefer. One for all the new Posters enclosing how will this 11th edition. The chosen image - granted in use by Gene Kelly Image Trust and Time Inc. - it is one of the photographer snap LIFE magazine J. R. Eyerman, capturing a magical moment on the set of Singin 'in the Rain, during testing of one of the most memorable scenes in the film: during a party, Gene Kelly imagine you dance with Cyd Charisse and the photo shows, with grace and harmony, their dream meeting.
"The chosen image encapsulates the sense of elegance and joy that I want to give to the Feast - says the artistic director Antonio Monda - The gesture of Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly gives us a dimension of dream. I remember that this masterpiece of cinema is able to be at the same time popular and refined ".