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Besieged

Open Cinema

CountryItaly,United States
Production Year1999
Running Time92min
Format35mm
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

A love story set in the contrasting climates of politically-charged Africa and the tranquil confines of an enchanting Roman villa. A man and a woman caught between love and loyalty form the emotional core of this intimate drama. Shandurai is a young African woman who leaves her homeland in the wake of her husband′s brutal abduction. Disenchanted with her country′s oppressive government, Shandurai relocates to Rome, where she finds work in the home of an eccentric English musician, Mr. Kinsky(David Thewlis). She works for Mr. Kinsky by day and studies for a medical degree at the local university by night. Amidst the faded antiquities of his inherited Roman villa, Mr. Kinsky composes music and hides behind the lacquer of his piano. It is only the blossoming love for Shandurai that draws the reclusive artist from his hiding place, setting the rhythms of their two very different worlds on a crash course destined for disaster.

Director

Bernardo BERTOLUCCI

Born in 1940 in Parma, Italy. One of the most accomplished directors of the contemporary Italian cinema. He began writing poetry as a child, and his work was published in periodicals before he was 12. Eight years later, while still a student at Rome University, he won a national poetry prize for his volume In Search of Mystery. While still in his teens he had developed a passion for the cinema and made several 16mm films. He was introduced to filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and abandoned his studies at Rome University to work as his assistant on Accattone. He also wrote the screenplay for his own first film, The Grim Reaper, in 1962. His films include Before the Revolution(1964), The Spider’s Stratagem(1969), The Conformist(1969), Last Tango in Paris(1973), 1900(1976), The Last Emperor(1985), The Sheltering Sky(1990), Little Buddha(1992), and Stealing Beauty(1995).

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