He Freedom Palace reopens its doors to cinematic and musical amazement. The cycle Essentials will present “Fellinesca”an artistic and poetic tribute to the great master of Italian cinema Federico Fellini. Conceived by Valeria Ambrosiothe show proposes a dreamlike walk through the world of images, sensations, and Fellini’s dreams, but built through music. Songs from iconic movies like “La Strada” (1954), “8½” (1963), “Amarcord” (1973), “Casanova” (1976), “The City of Women” (1980) and “Intervista” (1987) They will travel from celluloid to the concert hall, reinvented by musicians and performers who leave their own mark.
With musical direction and arrangements by Juan Serruyaan orchestral ensemble and seven voices from the musical scene as Patricia Browne, Andrea Cantoni, María Susana Ceva, Georgina Frére, Iara Lublinsky, Coni Marino and Juliana Ruizthat sensory memory will be brought to life. The group will include drums, piano, accordion, trumpet, tuba, strings and mandolin, an instrumental range that promises to recreate cinephilia in a musical key. The staging will be in charge of Leo Gaetani and the lighting, by Juan García Dorato. The show can be experienced live on Saturday, December 6 at 8 p.m., and on Sunday the 7th at 7 p.m. Saturday’s performance will be broadcast on online radio. Admission is free, although early withdrawal is required (maximum two per person).
Thus, more than a tribute, “Fellinesque” It is proposed as a sensory rereading of Fellini, a bridge between generations, not only evoking his films, but transforming them with music. It is an invitation to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of his films, but through hearing.
Fellini was not just a filmmaker, but an architect of dreams. Born on January 20, 1920 in Rimini, he became a legend of world cinema with his unmistakable style, marked by the mixture of realism and fantasy, the grotesque and the poetic. His movies, “La Strada”, “Amarcord”, “La dolce vita”, “8½” and “Y la nave va”, among many others, made cinema a territory of memory, desires, obsessions and ghosts. His work not only portrayed the Italy of his time, he reinvented the way of telling stories. Through unforgettable characters, he exuded the melancholy, irony, tenderness and extravagance that run through the human soul.
In that same spirit of cultural rescue, the Palacio Libertad, in coordination with the Italian Institute of Culture, also organized in November a series of Italian cinema that includes key titles by Fellini and other masters such as Visconti and Pasolini. Within this programming, “The Useless” (“I vitelloni”, 1953), considered one of Fellini’s founding films, will be screened again.
“The useless” tells the story of five lazy young people from a coastal town, who spend their days in cafes and squares while the hope of growing up sleeps. But the film becomes an intimate portrait of youth, frustrated hopes, the decisions that define a destiny. With its melancholic tone, its underground humor and its critical look at provincial life, it became a symbol of transition: from adolescence to adulthood, from conformity to choice. It was awarded the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival and marked Fellini’s rise as a great author.
The screening will take place on the esplanade of the Palacio Libertad on Saturday, November 29 at 8 p.m.in a outdoor performance, free and no reservation requiredideal as a prelude to “Fellinesca”.
