Casa Italiana Film Series: "Pizzicata"
- When
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
- Where
- Nazareth College-Casa Italiana
4245 East Ave
Rochester, NY
(585) 389-2468
- Contact
- 389-2468 casa@naz.edu
- Description
- Nazareth College’s Casa Italiana is ready for the Fall 2009 Film Series with a variety of music-centered films presented free of charge and open to the public. Films are shown Sunday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. in the Casa Italiana LeChase Lounge. The Casa Italiana is located on the Nazareth College campus at 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y., 14618. (Enter Nazareth’s South Campus Drive) For more information on the following events call 585-389-2468 or email casa@naz.edu.
Directed by Eduardo Winspeare, this film depicts the story of a peasant agrarian family as they hide an Italo-American pilot who is shot down in 1943. The pilot speaks the native dialect and hides himself as a cousin. He then falls in love with one of the three girls in the home. The director maintains the authenticity of local dialect, music, expressions, farming methods, social structures, and costumes. He also included a number of regional dances such as the pizzica, a sensual dance of courtship in which men and women gesture seductively, but never touch; the pizzica scherma in which two men confront each other in a danced duel; and the tarantula, a frenzied dance of loss and grief performed in the square in front of St. Paul’s Church. This film is in Italian with English subtitles.
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