CANCELED: Film Screening and Artist Talk: L'immensità Directed by Emanuele Crialese

Cornell in Rome Fall 2024 Lecture Series

We regret to inform you that the lecture scheduled for Wednesday, November 20th, has been cancelled due to an unforeseen commitment of the director Emanuele Crialese.

Abstract

Director Emanuele Crialese will screen his latest film L'immensità, which stars Penélope Cruz as the mother of two children, one of whom is a 12-year-old named Adriana who wants to change her name and gender identity. A Q&A with Crialese will follow the film screening.

Biography

Although born in Rome in 1965, Emanuele Crialese has Sicilian roots, to which he pays tribute in film after film. In 1991, he left for the United States, where he studied film direction at New York University (NYU). After making several shorts, he directed his first feature-length movie, Once We Were Strangers (1997). He then decided to return to his homeland and met international success (both in festivals and art houses) with his first Italian work, Respiro (2002), shot on Lampedusa Island in Sicily. In 2006, his next film, Golden Door (2006),  examined the question of emigration to the States at the beginning of the 20th century. His fourth feature, Terraferma (2011), won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.