A Sunday in Palermo: Palermo
Ciné-dimanche
By Emma Dante (Italy, 2012, 1:34)
With Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta
A session accompanied by Vincent Thabourey, film critic, and Giulia Fabbiano, lecturer in anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée” (2024).
A summer Sunday. The sirocco blows relentlessly over Palermo when Rosa and Clara, on their way to celebrate a friend’s wedding, get lost in the city and turn into a narrow alleyway: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same time, another car driven by Samira, in which the Calafiore family is crammed, takes the same alleyway in the opposite direction.
Neither Rosa nor Samira, a stubborn old woman, have any intention of backing down.
Locked in their cars, the two women face each other in a silent duel, their eyes full of hatred, without eating or drinking, without sleeping until the next day. More obstinate than the Palermo sun and harder than the ferocity of the men around them. Because, as in any duel, it’s a matter of life and death…
At the end of the session, extend the experience in the forum to discuss the film and taste a Mediterranean specialty: musical atmosphere, board games and workshops to boot!
Giulia Fabbiano
Giulia Fabbiano is a lecturer in anthropology at Aix-Marseille University, and a member of IDEAS UMR 7307. Her thesis on postcolonial identity and memory narratives in France was published as Hériter 1962. Harkis et immigrés à l’épreuve des appartenances nationales (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2016). Since then, her research has focused on the uses of the past in mobility practices in the Mediterranean space, as well as in ordinary experiences in Algeria. She participated in the collective writing of L’Esprit de la révolte. Archives et actualité des révolutions arabes (Éditions du Seuil, 2020) and recently co-edited Cheminements révolutionnaires. Un an de mobilisations en Algérie 2019-2020 (Éditions du CNRS, 2021) and Algérie coloniale. Traces, mémoires et transmissions (Cavalier Bleu, 2022). She is co-curator of the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée” (2024).
Vincent Thabourey
A critic for Positif magazine and author of books on the history of cinema, Vincent Thabourey created the repertory film distribution mission within the Agence pour le Développement Régional du Cinéma, and for 20 years ran a network of Art et Essai cinemas in the South of France. He is currently head of the continuing education project at Fémis.
By Emma Dante (Italy, 2012, 1:34)
With Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta
A session accompanied by Vincent Thabourey, film critic, and Giulia Fabbiano, lecturer in anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée” (2024).
A summer Sunday. The sirocco blows relentlessly over Palermo when Rosa and Clara, on their way to celebrate a friend’s wedding, get lost in the city and turn into a narrow alleyway: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same time, another car driven by Samira, in which the Calafiore family is crammed, takes the same alleyway in the opposite direction.
Neither Rosa nor Samira, a stubborn old woman, have any intention of backing down.
Locked in their cars, the two women face each other in a silent duel, their eyes full of hatred, without eating or drinking, without sleeping until the next day. More obstinate than the Palermo sun and harder than the ferocity of the men around them. Because, as in any duel, it’s a matter of life and death…
At the end of the session, extend the experience in the forum to discuss the film and taste a Mediterranean specialty: musical atmosphere, board games and workshops to boot!
Giulia Fabbiano
Giulia Fabbiano is a lecturer in anthropology at Aix-Marseille University, and a member of IDEAS UMR 7307. Her thesis on postcolonial identity and memory narratives in France was published as Hériter 1962. Harkis et immigrés à l’épreuve des appartenances nationales (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2016). Since then, her research has focused on the uses of the past in mobility practices in the Mediterranean space, as well as in ordinary experiences in Algeria. She participated in the collective writing of L’Esprit de la révolte. Archives et actualité des révolutions arabes (Éditions du Seuil, 2020) and recently co-edited Cheminements révolutionnaires. Un an de mobilisations en Algérie 2019-2020 (Éditions du CNRS, 2021) and Algérie coloniale. Traces, mémoires et transmissions (Cavalier Bleu, 2022). She is co-curator of the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée” (2024).
Vincent Thabourey
A critic for Positif magazine and author of books on the history of cinema, Vincent Thabourey created the repertory film distribution mission within the Agence pour le Développement Régional du Cinéma, and for 20 years ran a network of Art et Essai cinemas in the South of France. He is currently head of the continuing education project at Fémis.