The giant squid - from the novel of the same name by Fabio Genovesi, adaptation by Fabio Genovesi, Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Storti. Directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga *In Italian language
Angela's life is absurd and incomprehensible, like that of each of us. As a girl, many dreams and passions made her heart beat, but the rigid tracks of society and family led her to a situation that is like a bitter pill stuck in her throat, and goes neither up nor down. Today more than ever: she was returning to Milan for the office dinner, but the return of holidaymakers from the sea stops her in the queue towards Roncobilaccio. Angela curses all those people, she also curses the sea from which they return. And she still has her mouth open when an impossible wave takes her away, overwhelming and turning her life upside down. In a vortex outside the world and space, where he finds himself wandering around together with a strange and old-fashioned guy, Montfort, who comes from another nation and another century, and they only have in common that they don't know how they ended up there.
Thus begins their journey, which wave after wave will force them to experience the adventures of women and men who instead had the courage to embrace the sea and life as a single, astonishing wonder. Like Don Francesco Negri, a forty-year-old parish priest who in the seventeenth century left Ravenna and reached the North Pole on foot. Like Mary Anning, a poor orphan who runs a souvenir kiosk on the English coast, but will become the greatest dinosaur discoverer in the world. Together with them, fishermen from the Antilles, solitary custodians of provincial museums who resurrect animals that have been dead for millennia, dreamy kids oppressed by their classmates, grandmothers who talk to their dead husbands at dinner, girls who stop walking to avoid stepping on ants... Unknown but fundamental lives, incredible but very true, linked by believing wholeheartedly in the existence of an animal so enormous and far from normality that for millennia it was considered a legend: the Giant Squid. In their shoes, Angela and Montfort live their battles, are exalted by their triumphs and despair at the tragic ruins, in a story that darts across centuries and continents using all the languages offered by narration: images, scenography, music, dance ...in a passionate embrace that reaches the hearts of all ages, from the young to those who are young at heart. And if the giant squid exists in the world, then there is no longer a dream that is unachievable, an unattainable battle, an impossible love.
DATES: Friday February 9th at 9pm and Saturday February 10th at 9pm