Italian Film Series: The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
When: Wednesday,
February 3, 2021
7:00 PM
-
10:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: Italian Film Series: "The Flowers of St. Francis" [Francesco, giullare di Dio] (1950)
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Zoom
Please contact Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu for the Zoom link.
Description: Join us for our 6th Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department.
Italian culture has always been profoundly influenced by Catholicism and by the presence of the Holy See in Rome. For centuries, Italian writers and artists have explored the way religion is woven into the lives of ordinary people and the way their religious experiences are often contested by different sources of authority - confessor and father, priest and prophet, bishop and revolutionary. Our films this semester explore the complexity of religious experience and the role of the Italian church in a variety of historical epochs: the Middle Ages, the Risorgimento (Unification), and the Dopoguerra (post-WWII).
To begin this semester's film series, we will show "The Flowers of St. Francis" [Francesco, giullare di Dio] (1950), which "[i]n a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People's Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis's time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment"(Kanopy).
All films have English subtitles.
Got questions? Want to join our mailing list? Contact:
Prof. Rose Facchini - rose.facchini@umassd.edu
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Zoom
Please contact Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu for the Zoom link.
Description: Join us for our 6th Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department.
Italian culture has always been profoundly influenced by Catholicism and by the presence of the Holy See in Rome. For centuries, Italian writers and artists have explored the way religion is woven into the lives of ordinary people and the way their religious experiences are often contested by different sources of authority - confessor and father, priest and prophet, bishop and revolutionary. Our films this semester explore the complexity of religious experience and the role of the Italian church in a variety of historical epochs: the Middle Ages, the Risorgimento (Unification), and the Dopoguerra (post-WWII).
To begin this semester's film series, we will show "The Flowers of St. Francis" [Francesco, giullare di Dio] (1950), which "[i]n a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People's Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis's time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment"(Kanopy).
All films have English subtitles.
Got questions? Want to join our mailing list? Contact:
Prof. Rose Facchini - rose.facchini@umassd.edu
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Religious Studies, Films