
Discover in the city of Florence
a place made of stories
and shows
Discover in the city of Florence
a place made of stories
and shows
Cinema
Regia: David Lynch
Cast: Allen Joseph, Charlotte Stewart, Jack Nance, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts
At Giunti Odeon, the second appointment of The Big Dreamer retrospective: the cinema of David Lynch, with his first extraordinary film, Eraserhead, in a splendid new 4K version. The film will be followed by First Image, an unreleased short documentary (30') recounting the genesis of the film. Harry Spencer, a strange little man with a very peculiar hairstyle, is a rather odd lonely printer who lives in a desolate flat in the suburbs of a big city that seems to have survived some disaster or economic downturn or, more likely, an apocalypse. Harry is forced to marry his fiancée Mary, who has become pregnant. When the child is born, he is in essence a monster and things, already complicated, become even more complicated. The plot, difficult to summarise and at times even indecipherable in its apparent linearity, is probably the last thing that counts in this film, a brilliant container of suggestions, macabre anxieties and acute socio-psychological reflections that chase each other each time surprising and disturbing. Born in an underground context, David Lynch's first feature film went from New York art galleries to cinemas all over the world in just a few months. The first incunabulum (but for some the most radical and hypnotic) of Lynch's visions: avant-garde b/w, apocalyptic narration, inexplicable events and horror everywhere. Science fiction and the occult twisted forever, according to a decidedly surrealist logic.
A new innovative library format, within the backdrop of rare beauty that has housed a stage since 1922, which has made the history of cinema in Florence. A century later, Giunti Odeon marks a new beginning to personally experience the future and history in a single cultural, leisure, and entertainment experience. Rediscover the pleasure of experiencing the library in the heart of the city.
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The restaurant
Il Caffè Odeon di Firenze nasce da un incontro e da un sogno. L’incontro è quello con la casa editrice Giunti e col progetto sulla nuova vita da dare allo storico cinema Odeon di Firenze, come centro culturale polifunzionale. Il sogno era quello di poter avere uno spazio, aperto tutto il giorno come i grandi caffè mitteleuropei, in cui proporre piatti provenienti da diverse tradizioni gastronomiche, insieme ad una pasticceria altrettanto ricca e ad una caffetteria di grande qualità, senza trascurare bevande analcoliche sofisticate, vini e cocktail.Assaporare un cibo, bere un caffè fumante o sorseggiare un buon vino sono cose che hanno molto in comune con il leggere un libro o guardare un film: si tratta sempre di usare i nostri sensi per vivere delle storie, che ci riguardino direttamente o ci portino in altri mondi, ed è proprio questo che ha fatto sì che l’incontro permettesse al nostro sogno di avverarsi.
Odeon, the history of cinema in Florence
All the most beautiful films, the most illustrious guests, and the most important events have had the grand hall of the historic center as their stage. Discover its history.
A century of cinema and culture
From 1922 to the present, the history of Florence's Odeon cinema in a book full of pictures, documents, stories and curiosities.
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