The Last Week of July’s Outdoor Florence Films in English
CINEMA NEL CHIOSTRO. Sant’Orsola (near San Lorenzo). Admission: €8; €6 for season bus pass holders. 9:30 pm.
On Sunday, July 28, the courtyard of the Sant’Orsola complex will screen Kinds of Kindness by Yogos Lanthimso starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe. The plot centers on three, unrelated tales: how a man tries to challenge his fate, which seems to him predestined; the wife of a policeman returns home a changed person after being given up for dead; a woman embarks on a search for a psychic who is destined to become and extraordinary spiritual leader
APRITI CINEMA. Free movies showings in the original language. Uffizi Courtyard. Free admission.
The 2024 Apriti Cinema festival will screen a different film every night starting at 9:45 p.m. in the Uffizi Galleries courtyard, free of charge and open to the public. Featuring modern films and classic cinema as well as documentaries, the festival promises to enthrall any film lover who wishes to experience a one-of-a-kind screening under the Tuscan night sky.
The event is part of the Estate Fiorentina 2024 program overseen by the city of Florence. It is organized by the Associazione Amici dell’Alfieri, with programming curated by the Area Cinema di Fondazione Sistema Toscana and in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries.
Films from 27 countries will be screened at the festival, representing Europe, Asia, and the South and North Americas. The screenings will span films released in 1946 all the way up until the current year. All films will be screened in their original languages, with Italian subtitles (and, in some cases, English subtitles). The following English-language film will be screened during this week:
July 29 – Written on the Wind (1956), dir. Douglas Sirk. By tracing the story of an oil tycoon whose family is consumed by greed, this iconic Douglas Sirk film is a thesis on the downfalls of American vice. Bolstered by wealth and uninhibited by morals, the children of a Texas oil baron embark on a whirlwind series of betrayals and misdeeds.
