Caterina Va in Citta (Caterina in the big city)

13:00
27 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening


Pusat Kebudayaan Italia
Jl. HOS. Cokroaminoto No. 117 - Menteng - T 392-7531

Cuma WC
Wendy, Delia, Ati & Natalia, 2006, 6 Min
Indonesia, Documentary,

Caterina in the big city
Paolo Virzi, 2003, 99 min.
Italia, a fluffy and fun coming-of-age-in-Rome comedy.

Giancarlo (Sergio Castellitto) is delighted when he has an opportunity to leave his provincial teaching job and drag his wife Agata (Margherita Buy) and 12-year old daughter Caterina (newcomer Alice Teghil) back to his old neighborhood in Rome.
Caterina is a sweet, naïve, and pretty girl, and on her first day of school, she finds herself mocked as a hick. Her classmates are the sons and daughters of Rome's elite. Margherita's (Carolina Iaquaniello) parents are prominent intellectuals, and she leads a faction of bohemian socialist kids, while Daniella's father is a political heavyweight, and her preppy clique dresses in designer duds and espouses right-wing politics.

Poor Caterina finds the two opposing factions battling over her allegiance, but every time she makes a new friend, her father fouls things up. Giancarlo, who is also an aspiring novelist, spends his evenings at home ranting about the elites and their devious, cliquish ways, but every time he's in the presence of an important person, he desperately tries to ingratiate himself and get his talents noticed.
Meanwhile, he's drifting into depression and isolating himself from his wife and daughter. Caterina in the Big City was shown at New York City's Walter Reade Theater in 2004 as part of a Sergio Castellitto retrospective presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

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