2009 05 15 - Excess of Melodrammas : Triptych of Visconti's ad Leone's

Revenge! Greed! Fratricide! Forbidden Love!
These are the staples of the operatic narrative.
The films in this series engage in a heightened, melodramatic quasi-realism that is typical of opera. The visual strategies employed, combined with the musical score, produce a spatial and temporal experience which can only be found in the Cinema.

Luchino Visconti and Sergio Leone are the two leading exponent of this approach, self-consciously foregrounding the operatic sensibilities to the greatest degree, both in terms of content and style.

The programme includes a triptych of Visconti’s celebrated masterpieces – Senso, The Damned, and L’innocente; and Leone’s celebrated “Dollars” trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

Information
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009 - Sunday, May 17, 2009
Hours: 7.30pm
Venue: Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore
Organized by: National Museum of Singapore
In collaboration with: Italian Cultural Institute