Restored L’amore in Città to be Screened in San Francisco

Raro Video USA and the San Francisco Film Society will screen a digitally restored L'amore in città a.k.a Love in the City (1953) from August 17-23. The film is comprised of seven segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, and Cesare Zavattini.

Showtimes 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45. (SF Film Society Cinema).
Note: No 6:30 show Monday August 20.

L'amore in Città has been digitally restored in collaboration with the Italian National Cinemateque.

Six of Italy's most talented filmmakers—including Fellini and Antonioni—collaborate on this diverse '50s time capsule focusing on lives, mostly female, disappointed by love. Aiming for a "newly conscious kind of cinema" (as described in voiceover), the collection presents a journalistic view of city life using the actual people who experienced the events portrayed. From couples in a dance hall to prostitutes plying their trade, the film's varied segments offer a wide-ranging examination of how mid-century mores often led to suffering, particularly for women. On the more upbeat side are Fellini's tale of a woman longing for marriage and Alberto Lattuada's nearly wordless portrait of men checking out women on the streets of Rome.