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For MAGNIFICENT VISIONS, The ladies’ man by Jerry Lewis.

Cinema Massimo – from 12 November 2013, 8.30/10.15 p.m.

New rendez-vous for MAGNIFICENT VISIONS: The Permanent Festival of Restored Film, with the screening of the restored film The ladies’ man by Jerry Lewis, on Tuesday 12 November 2013, at 8.30 and 10.15 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Repeat screening Wednesday 13 at 4.00 p.m. Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

 

Sparkling second-time directing for Jerry Lewis, written by Lewis himself together with the trusted Bill Richmond and based on a script by Mel Brooks, The ladies’ man is established by right at the apex of its author’s artistic production due to the amiable bliss of the story and the stylistic sophistication flowing throughout. A film with an overwhelming rhythm, a pinwheel of explosive ideas and unlimited amusement. A film which is not only a magnificent and exemplary triumph of technical finesse, but also, and especially, a bubbly comedy, suggestively suspended between exhilarating mayhem and the usual, delightful caracoling features of its author’s drollery, which he uses to "overtake" the genre and define its stylistic clauses anew.

 

The film is part of the rendez-vous for the new, rich season of MAGNIFICENT VISIONS: The Permanent Festival of Restored Film which, following the great success with the public and critics during its past editions, will offer four monthly dates again this year, with masterpieces of cinema from the golden age of classic film, ranging from silent movies to the nouvelles vagues in the '60s and beyond, in restored copies from the most important film-archives worldwide. The films will be presented in original version with subtitles in Italian and introduced – when the opportunity arises – by filmmakers, critics or personalities from the world of culture and cinema.

 

Jerry Lewis

The Ladies' Man

(Usa 1961, 95’, DCP, col., o. v., it.subt.)

A young misogynist ends up by finding a job in Hollywood in an immense female boarding-house and eludes its invasive “furies” to his best ability. However, he soon recovers as well. Second film by Jerry Lewis, the experimenting filmmaker par excellence, who concentrates his gags here on the theme of matriarchy, almost always shooting inside a sort of gigantic dolls-house, seen in cross-section.