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Seven Beauties (18*) + ScreenTalk with Dr Julia Wagner

Hidden Figures – Lina Wertmüller

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Seven Beauties

Lina Wertmüller became the first woman to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar® for her masterpiece about an Italian criminal determined to survive the Holocaust, no matter what the personal cost.

Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini), a small-time crook living with his seven sisters in Naples under fascist rule, isn’t much of a man. He is the epitome of unchecked machismo, and overreacts to any threats to his ‘honour’.

When he vows revenge on the man who disgraced his sister, he sparks off a self-inflicted descent that leads to internment in a concentration camp, where his desperation to survive is tested to its limit.

Seven Beauties was nominated for four Oscars – Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. It’s an astonishing critique of humanity in crisis, with daring bursts of pitch black humour and a tremendous performance from Giannini.

Following this screening, season curator Alex Davidson will be in conversation with film critic and lecturer Dr Julia Wagner.

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This film contains some scenes of violence, including sexual violence, that viewers may find disturbing.

Italy 1975 Dir Lina Wertmüller 116 min

About the speaker

Dr Julia Wagner holds a PhD in Film Studies and MA in Italian Studies, writes about film for the Jewish Quarterly journal and is currently curating Jewish Britain on Film, a BFI-funded archive project.

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