The programme of the Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival will be published in the beginning of June at www.msfilmfestival.fi.
Master Classes
GIAN LUCA FARINELLI, the director of the Bologna film archive and the miracle worker of film restoration,will present the magnum opus of late, great Carlo Mazzacurati – The Right Distance (2007).
The topic of ALAIN BERGALA’s master class, Robert Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (1954), was the fifth of the director’s six collaborations with Ingrid Bergman. In the story, dams of a ten-year marriage are broken down and bitterness takes over while a British couple travels across heat-scorched southern Italy. The foreign country becomes an image of consciousness and the journey develops into a spiritual experience. Finally, alienation and growing apart receive their splendid, barren and unscrupulous interpretation.