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Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Cineteca di Bologna

The 1960s and '70s in America were a spectacular and highly disruptive era in the history of the renewal of the cinema, thanks to the courage of independent and underground rebel geniuses who produced their masterworks in open contrast with the official culture and overweening power of the Hollywood majors, pushing their own bitter and brutal vision of the complexities of contemporary society.  Children of an era of major ferment and protest, these astonishing directors moved in harmony with the most important developments in American art in search of a personal style free from hackneyed narrative patterns, often resorting to the technique of "scripts in progress" during filming in an effort to capture the unique experience of unscripted emotion.  Their cinema sank its roots deep in the urban "subsoil", embracing with open arms young people's self-destructive flight from civilized society through sex, drugs and violence.  This journey back in time to the American cinema of the era paints a shocking portrait of modern man as, disoriented, indifferent and devoid of certainties, he chooses aimless flight in an attempt to lose himself once and for all.

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Palazzo delle Esposizioni -  Cinema
Admission via steps in Via Milano 9 A, Rome
tel. 06 39967500
admission: full price € 4.00 - PdE membership cardholders € 3.00