Cinema Insieme Presents: Lamerica, March 28
Cinema Insieme Presents: Lamerica (1994): Monday March 28 at 7pm. $10 at the door.
Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest Italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounters a few problems. Far from his roots, losing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change.
This award-winning film takes the audience through the devastation of post-communist Albania as it follows the odyssey of a young Italian man who has come to make some easy money but finds himself caught up in the same curious mix of hopeful despair etched into the faces of people he’s come to swindle.
Directed by: Gianni Amelio ( Le chiavi di casa ) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110299/
