Robert De Niro to present Bertolucci classic Novecento at film festival in Rome

Hollywood star will introduce a special screening in Trastevere as Il Cinema in Piazza extends its 12th edition in tribute to Bertolucci. Robert De Niro is to fly into Rome on Monday 13 July to introduce the restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento, marking the 50th anniversary of the film. The screening, held in Piazza San Cosimato in Trastevere at 21.15, extends the 12th edition of Il Cinema in Piazza, the city's open-air film festival held every summer. According to the festival's organisers, the event is intended as a gift to Rome, in recognition of the affection the city has long shown the festival. De Niro, 82, will appear in conversation with journalist and academic Antonio Monda and Valerio Carocci, founder of the Fondazione Piccolo America, which runs the festival. The evening is billed as a tribute to Bertolucci, who the organisers say was, alongside fellow directors Ettore Scola, Ugo Gregoretti and Francesco Rosi, among the first to campaign for the protection of Rome's cultural spaces. The organisers argue that such spaces are once again under pressure, this time from international property funds. Piazza San Cosimato carries particular significance for the festival: it was there that Bertolucci presented Last Tango in Paris in a public square for the first time in 2017 - just over a year before his death in Rome aged 77 - and it was from the nearby former Cinema America that the 2012 occupation began which prevented the historic cinema's demolition. Novecento traces half a century of Italian history through the parallel lives of two men born on the same day in 1900 in the Emilian countryside: Alfredo, the landowner's son played by De Niro, and Olmo, the labourer's son played by Gérard Depardieu. The first part, to be screened on 13 July, follows their friendship from childhood to the rise of fascism; the second part, concluding the festival on 14 July, carries the story through to the Liberation. Entry to both screenings is free, subject to availability. De Niro's visit follows a trip to Rome last November, when he was awarded the city's highest honour, the Lupa Capitolina, in recognition of his contribution to cinema. During that visit De Niro also introduced a screening of the restored Once Upon a Time in America and opened his Nobu Hotel on Via Veneto. Il Cinema in Piazza's 12th edition has been held across three venues - Piazza San Cosimato, Parco della Cervelletta and Monte Ciocci - with guests including Jane Campion, Isabella Rossellini and Josh O'Connor. The Bertolucci tribute extends the festival by two additional evenings. For full information about Cinema in Piazza see official website. Photo credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com

WIRE — Hollywood star will introduce a special screening in Trastevere as Il Cinema in Piazza extends its 12th edition in tribute to Bertolucci. Robert De Niro is to fly into Rome on Monday 13 July to introduce the restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento, marking the 50th anniversary of the film. The screening, held in Piazza San Cosimato in Trastevere at 21.15, extends the 12th edition of Il Cinema in Piazza, the city's open-air film festival held every summer. According to the festival's organisers, the event is intended as a gift to Rome, in recognition of the affection the city has long shown the festival. De Niro, 82, will appear in conversation with journalist and academic Antonio Monda and Valerio Carocci, founder of the Fondazione Piccolo America, which runs the festival. The evening is billed as a tribute to Bertolucci, who the organisers say was, alongside fellow directors Ettore Scola, Ugo Gregoretti and Francesco Rosi, among the first to campaign for the protection of Rome's cultural spaces. The organisers argue that such spaces are once again under pressure, this time from international property funds. Piazza San Cosimato carries particular significance for the festival: it was there that Bertolucci presented Last Tango in Paris in a public square for the first time in 2017 - just over a year before his death in Rome aged 77 - and it was from the nearby former Cinema America that the 2012 occupation began which prevented the historic cinema's demolition. Novecento traces half a century of Italian history through the parallel lives of two men born on the same day in 1900 in the Emilian countryside: Alfredo, the landowner's son played by De Niro, and Olmo, the labourer's son played by Gérard Depardieu. The first part, to be screened on 13 July, follows their friendship from childhood to the rise of fascism; the second part, concluding the festival on 14 July, carries the story through to the Liberation. Entry to both screenings is free, subject to availability. De Niro's visit follows a trip to Rome last November, when he was awarded the city's highest honour, the Lupa Capitolina, in recognition of his contribution to cinema. During that visit De Niro also introduced a screening of the restored Once Upon a Time in America and opened his Nobu Hotel on Via Veneto. Il Cinema in Piazza's 12th edition has been held across three venues - Piazza San Cosimato, Parco della Cervelletta and Monte Ciocci - with guests including Jane Campion, Isabella Rossellini and Josh O'Connor. The Bertolucci tribute extends the festival by two additional evenings. For full information about Cinema in Piazza see official website. Photo credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com

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