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Fondazione Prada presents the September program of Cinema Godard and the exhibition “Wes Anderson, Asteroid city: exhibition”

The exhibition "Wes Anderson – Asteroid City: Exhibition" will open to the public at the venue Milano of Fondazione Prada from 23 September 2023 to 7 January 2024 on the occasion of the Italian preview of the American director's latest film.

Fondazione Prada presents the September program of Cinema Godard and the exhibition “Wes Anderson, Asteroid city: exhibition”.

Godard's Cinema Fondazione Prada relaunches its programming that explores the cinematographic panorama of the present and past as an open and constantly evolving festival. International directors Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog and Rebecca Zlotowski are the protagonists of the three meetings that will inaugurate the new season curated by Paolo Moretti. The exhibition “Wes Anderson – Asteroid City: Exhibition” will open to the public at the headquarters of Milano of Fondazione Prada from 23 September 2023 to 7 January 2024 on the occasion of the Italian preview of the American director's latest film.

As Miuccia Prada states, “Cinema is a laboratory of new ideas and a space for cultural education, which is why we decided to dedicate our room to Jean-Luc Godard. The experimental and visionary strength of his research is a continuous stimulus to renew the Foundation's commitment to the diffusion of cinematographic and visual languages ​​and to the exploration of emerging forms of narration, activating a place of knowledge of the world and of people's lives. ”

The new name of Fondazione Prada's cinema pays homage to one of the most visionary and innovative figures in world cinema, capable of influencing generations of cinephiles, artists and spectators with his work. The Godard Cinema reinforces the ideal bond with the French-Swiss director who conceived and created his only permanent installations open to the public for the Foundation: “Le Studio d'Orphée” and “Accent-soeur”. From February to December 2023 Fondazione Prada is dedicating a retrospective to Godard that analyzes his vast and complex production, presenting in September British Sounds (1970), Pravda (1970), Vento dell'est (Le vent d'est, 1970) and Struggles in Italy (1971).

Meetings with directors Rebecca Zlotowski, Werner Herzog and Wes Anderson:

Saturday 16rd September at 20pm, the French director and screenwriter Rebecca Zlotowski will be at the center of a conversation on her entire work, from her debut film Belle épine (30), which revealed Léa Seydoux and was selected for the Semaine de la Critique of Cannes, to the more recent I children of others (Les enfants des autres, 2010), presented in competition at the 2022 edition of the Venice Film Festival.

Sunday September 17th at 20pm, the German director and writer Werner Herzog will be the protagonist of a meeting with the public. On this occasion he will present his latest film The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), dedicated to the well-known French volcanologists and filmmakers and distributed in Italian cinemas by I Wonder Pictures, and the Italian premiere of Theater of Thought ( 2022) which explores the mystery of the human brain between neuroscientific and technological discoveries and their ethical and philosophical implications. In addition to the two unreleased films, a selection of his documentary works from the XNUMXs will be presented, many of which have never been released in theaters in Italy.

Friday September 22st at 20pm, the Italian preview of Asteroid City (30), Wes Anderson's latest work presented at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and distributed by Universal Pictures International Italy from 2023 September in Italian cinemas, will be accompanied by a meeting with the American director.

“Wes Anderson – Asteroid City: Exhibition”:

From 23 September 2023 to 7 January 2024 Fondazione Prada, in collaboration with Universal Pictures International Italy, will present a Milano the exhibition “Wes Anderson – Asteroid City: Exhibition” on the occasion of the Italian premiere of the film. Following an initial exhibition in London, the project will be housed in the Foundation's North gallery and will include a selection of original sets, props, models, costumes and artwork featured in the film. The immersive installations will transport the audience into the creative universe of Wes Anderson's eleventh film, set in 1955 in an imaginary American city in the desert. The film tells of a conference of young astronomers and space cadets, which brings together students and parents from all over the country, shocked by mysterious events that will change the world. Two years after The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson returns to the big screen with a film that combines science fiction with the spirit of Broadway and which contains the characteristic traits that have consolidated the international fame of the American author. The film of extraordinary plastic strength and great compositional refinement makes use of an ensemble cast of international talents such as Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber and Hope Davis. Asteroid City ironically evokes collective (the atomic bomb) and individual (loneliness) fears and constitutes a further development of the American director's original and refined poetics.

Wes Anderson and Fondazione Prada have built a strong bond over the years. In 2015 the director conceived the Bar Luce which recreates the atmosphere of a typical old café Milano taking inspiration from two masterpieces of Italian Neorealism: Miracolo a Milano (1951) by Vittorio De Sica and Rocco and his brothers (1960) by Luchino Visconti. Its structural and decorative elements recall the popular culture and aesthetics of Italy in the 2013s and 2017s, which Anderson had already drawn inspiration from for the short film Castello Cavalcanti produced by Prada in XNUMX. In XNUMX Wes Anderson, with Juman Malouf, curated “The sarcophagus of Spitzmaus and other treasures”, an exhibition project created by Fondazione Prada in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.

September program of the Godard Cinema:

The intense monthly calendar of screenings and meetings at the Godard Cinema follows different programming lines that suggest possible paths and trajectories to the public.

The #Soggiva screenings investigate the filmography of key authors of the contemporary cinematographic panorama through a selection of their works. This month's two protagonists are Werner Herzog and Rebecca Zlotowski.

#Nocturna explores the universe of genre cinema with the complicity of Nocturno magazine. The Australian indie horror Talk to Me (23) will have its Italian premiere on Saturday 21 September at 30pm. Directed by brothers Danny and Michael Philippou and screened at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival, the film garnered praise from Jordan Peele, Stephen King, Peter Jackson and Ari Aster.

#Sonic reveals the multiple connections between music and moving images. Nothing Compares (2022) by Kathryn Ferguson is a documentary, winner of two British Independent Film Awards, about the life and career of the recently deceased singer Sinead O'Connor.

#Classics presents restored versions of films that have marked the history of cinema and nourished the collective imagination. In September, The Elephant Man (1980) by David Lynch, Uccellacci e birdsi (1966) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, L'Atalante (1934) by Jean Vigo, Miracolo a Milano (1951) by Vittorio De Sica and The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920) by Robert Wiene.

#Selection presents some of the most interesting international releases of the current film season such as Olga (2021) by Elie Grappe, Falcon Lake (2022) by Charlotte Le Bon, Pamfir's Oath (Pamfir, 2022) by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Wild Animals (RMN, 2022) by Cristian Mungiu, Silent Land (Cicha ziemia, 2021) by Aga Woszczynska and The mystery of the green perfume (Le parfum vert, 2022) by Nicolas Pariser.

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