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A World of Love |
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7:30 pm
Jackie Gleason Theater
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Italian director Aurelio Grimaldi artfully transforms history into swooningly beautiful, poetic explorations of the most complex nuances of gay experience. In "A World of Love", Grimaldi takes a chapter from the real life story of celebrated Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini – when, in 1949, the nascent artist was a quiet, introverted 27-year-old literature professor in a small northern Italian village, dreaming of writing his first novel. Intoxicated with the free expression of sexuality he finds in the literature of the ancient Greeks and the modern French, Pasolini gets drunk with three young boys at a village fair and has a spontaneous, euphoric and largely innocent sexual encounter with them. Word gets out and Pasolini soon finds himself under investigation by the police for "corruption of minors" – much to the rage and disgust of his war-hero father, and to the devastation of his loyal, sensitive mother. Shot in dreamy, lush black & white, "A World of Love" creates a deeply personal figure out of the historical Pasolini. Grimaldi and his star, the magnetic Arturo Paglia, create a portrait of a young gay man fighting to keep from internalizing the homophobic shame heaped upon him by his society; to stay true to the internal passions of his soul through an ostracized depression; and to stay alive to the breathtaking beauty of the land, the language, the people that would so memorably inspire him until the untimely end of his days. In Italian with English subtitles.
Director Aurelio Grimaldi and actor Arturo Paglia will be in attendance at this screening and discuss their work with the audience.
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