Film and music during the “SettantaOttanta (SeventiesEighties): the Italian mutation, circa 1979” festival

The third edition of the SettantaOttanta (SeventiesEighties) festival closes with a programme entirely featuring film and music, organised by the Franti - Nisi Masa Italia association, in partnership with the National Museum of Cinema. An afternoon focusing on Italian comedy in its more playful and anarchic forms, true products of that era's unease: Arbore's gang, the clowning madness of Nichetti's early career and the film My sweet camera, featuring the unusual comic trio Paolo Rossi-Enrico Ghezzi-Tatti Sanguineti. The evening will be spent in the company of Stefano Giaccone, an ex-member of the Franti, a Turin-based rock band that during the 1970s and 1980s challenged the usual Italian music. Giaccone will present his surprising debut novel, La vena d'oro (The Golden Vein) with a reading created specially for the occasion. Afterwards, there will be a screening of the recent documentary on Demetrio Stratos, as a tribute to the miraculous voice of the band Area, who died suddenly in a New York hospital 30 years ago.