Chichester Cinema at New Park
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini
Vittorio De Sica’s autumnal masterpiece which won an Oscar in 1971 moves into colour.
Set at the outbreak of War, De Sica’s film tells the story of the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts, the Finzi-Continis are not worried as they rally on their own, living in their dreamland.
Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend, Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi-Contini family, but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio s separation of Micol, De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life, from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. (Subtitles)
Italy · 1970 · Vittorio De Sica · 90min
