Cine Dante and The New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy present:
Il papa’ di Giovanna/Giovanna’s Father 2008 (Pupi Avati)
Friday 22 May, 6.30 pm
University of Auckland 10 Symonds Street (Arts and Education Building) 201, Room 265
Free Admission
Discussion and refreshments to follow
Set In Bologna in the late 1930s the film features Silvio Orlando in the role of Michele, a devoted and overprotective father, who does not recognize his daughter’s (Alba
Rohrwacher) mental health problems. His sole scope in life becomes his constant
attention to her once she is committed to a psychiatric hospital for a crime she commits. Against the backdrop of Fascist Italy, the film is a character and societal study of the
complexity of excessive paternal love, mental illness and psychiatric institutions.
Silvio Orlando won the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for his performance. Alba Rohrwacher won a David di Donatello Award for her role as Giovanna.
