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SUMMARY:TUTTO PARLA DI TE [ALL ABOUT YOU] (2012) - Alina Marazzi
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CONTACT:Daniel Jonah Wolpert
DESCRIPTION:‘Alina Marazzi occupies a very special place in the history 
 of Italian women filmmakers for her experimental style and feminist approa
 ch’ (Cristina Gamberi)\n\nSynopsis:\nPauline (Charlotte Rampling) return
 s to Turin ‐ her place of birth ‐ for the first time after many years 
 and gets in touch with Angela (Maria Grazia Mandruzzato)\, whom she had ea
 rlier met abroad and who now manages a Maternity Center. Here Pauline unde
 rtakes a research project on the experiences and problems of today's mothe
 rs\, starting from the statements\, videos\, photographs collected by Ange
 la. Among the mothers attending the Center there is Emma (Elena Radonicich
 )\, a young and elusive dancer in deep crisis: she doesn't know how to fac
 e the responsibilities demanded by motherhood and sees her life at a stand
 still. She feels alone and inept. Between the two women\, a relationship o
 f complicity develops\, which in a play of reflections\, will lead Pauline
  to come to terms with her own tragic past and allow Emma to discover a me
 aningful sense of self in her new identity as a mother.\n\nDirector’s no
 tes:\nI was with my newborn son when a woman drew near saying to me with a
  smile: "How beautiful babies are in the arms of others!" An apparently ba
 nal comment made me reflect on the conflicts that can occur in a mother‐
 child relationship. Every mother is aware of that sentiment in balance bet
 ween love and refusal of her own child. It's a painful tension to experien
 ce and very hard to confess\, inasmuch as rubbing against the common conce
 ption of that primordial bond. With this film\, I wanted to explore and dr
 amatize the ambivalence of the maternal sentiment and the resistance\, whi
 ch even till this day\, there is in accepting and facing it. To honor the 
 complexity of this sentiment\, I chose to integrate the fictional with div
 erse elements: archive footage\, animated clips\, documentary sequences\, 
 through which I could evoke the various emotional levels this tension give
 s rise to in those living through it.\n\nMarazzi’s previous films includ
 e Un’ora sola ti vorrei [For One More Hour With You] (2002) and Vogliamo
  anche le rose [We Want Roses Too] (2007).\n\nThe director will introduce 
 the film and take questions after the screening.\n
LOCATION:Clare College\, Riley Auditorium
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