Monday at the Cinema – L’Industriale
Lunedì al Cinema – L’IndustrialeDirector: Giuliano Montaldo. With Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Eduard Gabia, 94’In Italian with Italian subtitles Giuliano Montaldo’s drama tells the story of factory owner Nicola Ranieri who is struggling both professionally and emotionally. The banks are foreclosing and pride has taken him to the brink of ruin as he […]
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Visual design. How things tell, inform, and seduce our everyday gaze. With Riccardo Falcinelli
On the occasion of the Italian Design Day in 100 locations around the world, 100 “ambassadors” of Italian culture (designers, entrepreneurs, journalists, critics, communicators, teachers…) will illustrate the concept of excellence. IIC presents an evening with world-famous Italian designer Riccardo Falcinelli. In the contemporary world design is everywhere: it can be used, lived, enjoyed, […]
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Giovedì all’Opera – Guillaume Tell
Film in French with English Subtitles. Introduction by Deirdre O’Grady (UCD) Staged by Graham Vick. Conductor: Michele Mariotti. With: Nicola Alaimo, Simon Orfila, Juan Diego Flórez, 247’. Guillaume: ‘Udite l’empio! Ei grida che non abbiam più patria’/ Hear the faithless one. He shouts that we have no longer a fatherland’ Rossini’s last opera written […]
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Giovanni Allevi in concert
Doors: 7pm. Show: 8pmNational Concert Hall, John Field Room, EarlsfortTerrace, D2 – €25; Box Office: (0)1 417 0000 Giovanni Allevi is an Italian pianist and composer, author of piano solos and orchestral pieces. His music defies definition, varying from classical to jazz and pop, but it is always characterised by a definite melodic sense […]
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ADIFF – 7 Minuti
Info : Sat 25th Feb / Cineworld 9 / 14:00 / 92 mins Director : Michele Placido / 2016 / Italy Writers: Stefano Massini, Michele Placido Cast : Ambra Angiolini, Cristiana Capotondi, Clémence Poésy, Fiorella Mannoia, Anne Consigny Michele Placido and Federica Vincenti will attend this screening. Committed performances and a tightly wound plot ensure […]
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Francesca Melandri in conversation with Catherine Dunne
Francesca Melandri in conversation with Catherine Dunne.In English. After a long and successful screenwriting career, Francesca Melandri’s literary debut was in 2010 with Eva Sleeps, a critically acclaimed bestseller translated in most European languages and now published in English by Europa editions.Her second novel Higher Than the Sea confirmed her standing among readers and literary […]
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ADIFF – La ragazza del mondo / Worldly girl
Directed by Marco Danieli Italy-France, 104 mins, 2016, Italian (with English subtitles) Marco Danieli creates a sympathetic and touching coming-of-age story about a character not often seen on screen. Giulia is an academically gifted young woman who belongs to the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Her aspirations and relationships are rigidly determined by her family and […]
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Invitation to book launch
You are invited to the launch of these three books by Umberto Eco (1st anniversary of his death on 19th February), Primo Levi and Alberto Moravia (translated from Italian to Gaeilge by Matt Hussey) and published by Coiscéim. Prof Alan Titley will do the honours. Event in Irish. Déanfaidh an tOllamh Alan Titley […]
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ADIFF – La pazza gioia / Like crazy
Directed by Paolo Virzi Italy-France, 116 mins, 2016, Italian (with English subtitles). Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a selfstyled billionaire countess who thinks she’s on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. Both are patients at the Villa Biondi, a progressive but […]
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Madama Butterfly by Puccini
Madama Butterfly returns to the Irish stage at the NCH Fully Staged Irish Opera at the National Concert Hall Breathtakingly beautiful from first love to tragic end – Lyric Opera Productions presents its much acclaimed Madama Butterfly at the National Concert Hall on February 18th, 19th and 21st. Audiences adore Puccini’s much loved dramatic opera […]
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