{"id":14563,"date":"2014-10-29T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=14563"},"modified":"2014-10-29T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:37:06","slug":"14563-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=14563","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Monday November 3, 7:30pm<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Una Vita Violenta (A Violent Life)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">adaptation of the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">suggested donation $6 &#8211; free for Members<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14564\" src=\"http:\/\/microscope.webfactional.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A-Violent-Life_2.jpg\" alt=\"A Violent Life\" width=\"648\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A-Violent-Life_2.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/A-Violent-Life_2-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microscope is pleased to present <em>Una Vita Violenta (A Violent Life)<\/em> based on the novel of the same title by the Italian poet, writer, artist and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini after a copy serendipitously arrived in the mail.\u00a0We were already thinking about Pasolini given current attention to Abel Ferrara&#8217;s new film <em>Pasolini<\/em> about the last day of his life and the release of the English translations of his selected poetry by Chicago University Press. <\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This 1961 black and white narrative feature is considered to be quite faithful to the Pasolini&#8217;s book of the same title, which is the second in what was conceived as 3 novels set in the slums of post-war Rome.\u00a0With elements of Bildungsroman, film noir, and Italian neorealism the film\u00a0follows several years in the life of the main character Tommaso from a violent teen with fascist leanings to an awakened young man still unable to escape the tragedy of his circumstances. <\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lead role is played by\u00a0Franco Citti, an untrained actor, who also starred in several of Pasolini\u2019s own films including\u00a0<em>Accattone<\/em>\u00a0(1961),\u00a0<em>Mamma Rosa<\/em>\u00a0(1962),\u00a0<em>Edipo Re<\/em>\u00a0(Oepdipus Rex,1968),\u00a0<em>Porcile<\/em>\u00a0(Pigsty, 1969), and<em> Il Decameron<\/em> (The Decameron,1971). <em>Una Vita Violenta<\/em> is directed by film writers and directors PAOLO HEUSCH and BRUNELLO RONDI, the latter of whom is best known as a script writer on Frederico Fellini&#8217;s films including\u00a0<em>La Dolce Vita<\/em> (1960), <em>8 1\/2<\/em> (1963),\u00a0<em>Satyricon<\/em>\u00a0(1969) among others. The film has rarely shown in the US, but was screened last winter at Spectacle Theater.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microscope Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation as the Official Sponsor of our Event Series<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday November 3, 7:30pm Una Vita Violenta (A Violent Life) by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi adaptation of the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini suggested donation $6 &#8211; free for Members \u00a0 Microscope is pleased to present Una Vita Violenta (A Violent Life) based on the novel of the same title by the Italian poet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14574,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14563\/revisions\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}