Italian Journeys on Film

Buongiorno a tutti! We are launching our new Italian film series which will screen a range of films that travel through Italy in both space and time. On these voyages you will be meet people and places and encounter the many social realities that define Italy past and present.

We begin our series with a journey on a train: Tickets-we hope to see you on board!

28 February, 6 pm Building 201, Room 265 (If parking at Owen Glenn, enter from Wyynard Street entrance)

After the film, we invite everyone who wants to remain to chat about the film over a drink! 

 

Tickets

Tickets is a collaborative film involving three great filmmakers: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach. Each filmmaker contributed a segment to create the full film. The film follows the events that occur on a train ride across Italy, toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was (Olmi’s film), a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband and who's accompanied by an assisting community service volunteer (Kiarostami’s film), and three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match (Loach’s film). All the segments are connected by the unifying element of the ticket and through a family of Albanian refugees, who switch trains and steal a ticket and a very patient (real!) ticket controller! Interactions among these passengers remark on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViD9yRse1g

 Closest parking: Owen G Glen (12 Grafton Road)

 

Parking: $6 flat rate after 4.30 pm

See attached map.