Giunti Odeon presents the grand finale of its comprehensive retrospective dedicated to David Lynch, with Inland Empire, his latest film, re-released for the occasion exactly 20 years after its theatrical release. In an elegant residential neighbourhood located in a valley on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a woman is in trouble. She is in love and surrounded by a thick aura of mystery. Her story will intertwine with that of an actor who has just been chosen to play the role of a southern gentleman in a major production... Inland Empire is not a coherent, linear film with a definable beginning and end, but is first and foremost a sensory experience. It is the free flow of an artist's thoughts, requiring no explanation, only intuition and personal emotions, whether positive or negative. One could talk about parallel worlds, reality and fiction merging, meeting and parting ways, cinema and television (and film and digital), and the concept of time as non-sequential, random and absolute.

Giunti Odeon presents Paolo Sorrentino's eagerly awaited new film, starring the extraordinary Toni Servillo, who won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere as the opening title.

Mariano De Santis, the President of the Republic, is at the end of his term; he has in fact entered the white semester. Widowed for eight years from his wife Aurora, whom he still misses very much, he is a Catholic and author of a criminal law manual described as the Himalaya K3. He has two children: Dorotea, a lawyer like him, is always by his side and always checks his meals to ensure he eats healthily; Riccardo, a musician (but not of classical music as he had hoped), lives in Montreal. In these last months of his term, he also discovers his nickname, “Reinforced Concrete”. But above all, he faces two moral dilemmas. The first concerns the request for clemency for Isa Rocca, who killed her husband in his sleep after being abused for a long time, and for Cristiano Arpa, who killed his wife who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The second: he does not know whether or not to sign the law on the right to euthanasia. These doubts torment him, along with a past that keeps resurfacing and whose hidden truths he is trying to uncover.

One of the greatest masterpieces of sci-fi cinema returns to the big screen at Giunti Odeon: an absolute cult classic directed by Steven Spielberg. In his third film, the great American director created his first truly Spielbergian work, the story of a child's dream that comes true when you are too old to accept that it could be real. Yet it takes very little: the dazzling light through the keyhole, a fridge emptied by invisible forces, the screws of a ventilation grille that loosen by themselves; in short, the magic of cinema is enough to make it real. It is no coincidence that Richard Dreyfuss's Roy has to give up being an adult, upsetting the family balance, in order to accept the revelation of the existence of UFOs (and it is no coincidence that the word “revelation” already appears in the title of Spielberg's highly anticipated return to science fiction, Disclosure Day). Is Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film about faith? It is certainly a film about trusting others, even when there are many reasons to fear them. A beautiful dream to believe in, these days.

Giunti Odeon presents Franco Battiato. Il lungo viaggio (Franco Battiato: The Long Journey), a biopic directed by Renato De Maria and written by Monica Rametta, dedicated to one of the greatest artists in Italian music. The film follows the journey of the young Battiato, played by an extraordinary Dario Aita, from Sicily to his arrival in Milan in the 1970s, exploring the crucial moments on the road to success and accompanying him until his return to his beloved homeland. The movie is the story of an inner journey, in which the artist's nature, already inclined towards spirituality, transforms into a more conscious quest, also through his friendship with Fleur (Elena Radonicich), his relationship with his mother (Simona Malato) and fundamental encounters, such as his friendship with Juri Camisasca (Ermes Frattini) and Giuni Russo (Nicole Petrelli), up to his historic partnership with Giusto Pio (Giulio Forges Davanzati), co-author of many of the most important songs of Franco Battiato's career. The film traces Franco Battiato's evolution from radical experimentation to evenings with Giorgio Gaber and Ombretta Colli to pop success, focusing on his true journey: the search for his inner self. An intimate and visionary tale, in which music becomes the language of a constant striving towards the transcendent, beyond all forms of celebrity.

A Giunti Odeon la proiezione del film-evento Disunited Nations, a cui seguirà il Q&A in diretta streaming con Francesca Albanese. Nel marzo 2024, Francesca Albanese, Relatrice Speciale delle Nazioni Unite per i Territori Palestinesi Occupati, ha denunciato un genocidio a Gaza. Seguendo i suoi passi tra missioni, incontri istituzionali e pressioni politiche, questo documentario ci porta nel cuore della crisi delle Nazioni Unite, messa di fronte alla propria incapacità di impedire il massacro dei civili. Attraverso interviste, materiali d’archivio e il dietro le quinte del lavoro diplomatico, il film racconta il difficile equilibrio tra diritto internazionale, informazione e potere, mostrando come l’ONU e la comunità globale appaiano sempre più divise di fronte al conflitto.