Italian Movie Night @ Gallery 40 - Monday, November 11, 2024
Mon, Nov 11
|Gallery 40
Join us Monday, November 11 @6:30PM to watch "Non ci resta che piangere" in Italian (with English subtitles) at Gallery 40, 40 Cannon St, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Time & Location
Nov 11, 2024, 6:30 PM
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
About the Event
Non ci resta che piangere (Nothing Left to Do But Cry) is a 1984 Italian fantasy comedy film written, directed, and starring Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi.
Saverio, an elementary school teacher, and Mario, a janitor, drive down a side road to avoid waiting for a level crossing when the unthinkable happens: a sudden storm takes them back in time to 1492. After the initial shock and fear, Mario falls in love with sweet Pia while Saverio thinks the right thing to do is to run to Palos to stop Christopher Columbus, thus preventing him from discovering the Americas.
Non ci resta che piangere is the precious fruit of the union of two extraordinary comic talents who were at the height of their abilities at the time: the Neapolitan and the Tuscan, two different but similar ways of mocking reality, a formidable narrative framework for which every paradox becomes permissible and…