February 22, 2023 – An evening dedicated to Franco Zeffirelli in the 100th anniversary of his birth with the screening of Rebel Conformist by movie director Anselma dell’Olio.
He died at the age of 96 in 2019 and he was one of the greatest directors and intellectuals of the last century, whose creative fervor gave the theater some important productions also in these first two decades of the new millennium. In years of reinterpretations as daring as they are profound, the Florentine master has often been criticized for a certain aesthetic taste, a formal rigor, an attention to detail that sometimes veered towards the Baroque, and which instead constitute his trademark, born from a deep faith in the theatre, from an immense culture and from a deep and peculiar technical knowledge of that world. A cross and a delight for many enthusiasts and critics, the theatre, like Zeffirelli’s cinema, has its own hallmark in the meticulous attention to detail and in the search for beauty. Great set designer, that oleographic taste that has sometimes been reproached for him, would rather seem the joyful and aware affirmation of the celebrant who is preparing to renew and officiate the mystery of a rite: charm and grandeur they are essential elements of sacredness, (re)creation of that truth which is at the basis of the mystery.
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