41 PARALLELO Double Feature: Flat Tyre (documentary) and Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers

In collaboration with Napoli Film Festival. All films are in ENGLISH or ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles.

Flat Tyre – An American Music Dream (Winner – Best Documentary)
(Musical docu-fiction, Italy/USA, 2016, 71 min.)
by Ugo Di Fenza

The documentary follows a Neapolitan bluegrass band for forty days. “La terza classe” travel to the U.S.A. and then from New York to Houston, in a van, in search of the origins of the music they play. In order to cover expenses, the six musicians play in the streets until they accidentally meet a star like Jim Lauderdale, who lets them play on “Music City Roots” a television program about American folk music.

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A Tribute to Actor Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1972-1994)
On the 75th anniversary of his birth

Three Brothers [Tre fratelli]
(Drama, Italy, 1981, 113 min.)
by Francesco Rosi

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each faces the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young grand-daughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.

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From Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.