When: Wednesday, April 10th from 6:30 to 8 pm - Where: Galleria at the Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere 

La Dolce Vita: Fantasy and Modernity in Italian Cinema of the 1960s 

As a dramatic departure from the gritty realism of Italy’s Neorealist films of the 1940s and 1950s, Italian cinema of the 1960s embraces modernism and the director’s unique point of view – a subjectivity that experiments with imagination and dreams as spectacle, eventually verging into pastiche and exploitation.