Giunti Odeon pays tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 50th anniversary of his death with one of his most famous films. The screening of Teorema is the final event of the workshop dedicated to the great director and the third event in the series organised in collaboration with the Teatro della Toscana, coinciding with the performance Ma a che serve la luce? by Virgilio Sieni (at Teatro della Pergola, 26 and 27 november).

“If a middle-class family received a visit from a young god, whether Dionysus or Jehovah, what would happen?”. This is Pasolini's hypothesis, on which he bases and proceeds to demonstrate by reductio ad absurdum his theorem: “the inability of modern man to perceive, listen to, absorb and live the sacred word”. In 1968, Pasolini created a work in the form of both a novel and a film (originally intended to be a theatrical tragedy). For the first time, the setting is within an upper-middle-class family (in Milan). 

The author imagines that a young and beautiful boy, a mysterious visitor, a god, enters the house and, having carnal relations with all the members of the family, strips them of their false bourgeois respectability and their fragile identity, and then abandons them. After his disappearance, they all fall into a deep crisis and only the maid, of peasant origin (played by the prodigious Laura Betti, Pasolini's friend and companion since the late 1950s), undergoes a beneficial metamorphosis, becoming a sort of “holy madwoman”. The utopia of a definitive crisis of the bourgeoisie is staged by the poet-director with cold colours that correspond to the detachment of the direction, which contemplates the actions as reports of a geometric demonstration. A devastating angel, the Guest is the bearer of an eros that takes on a sacred and purifying function that upsets every coordinate of the bourgeois aquarium and ends with a desolate image of the desert where the father of the family wanders desperately, alone and naked, condemned to scream endlessly.

Giunti Odeon presents Luc Besson's new film, already a cult classic, dedicated to the myth of Dracula. Based on Bram Stoker's famous novel, the film is set in 15th-century Transylvania. After the sudden loss of his wife, Prince Vladimir renounces God, thus inheriting an eternal curse: to become a vampire. Condemned to wander through the centuries, he defies fate and death itself, driven by a single hope: to find his lost love.

Last year's global cinematic phenomenon, which became the most successful Broadway adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, thrilling and emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good. Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and featuring the return of the spectacular cast led by Oscar®-nominated superstars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter in the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda drifting apart as they live with the consequences of their choices. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonised as the Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile in the forest of Oz, continuing her fight for the freedom of the animals of Oz and desperately trying to reveal the truth about the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Glinda, meanwhile, has become the emblem of goodness for all of Oz, living in the Emerald City palace and enjoying the benefits of fame and popularity. Under the direction of Madame Morrible (Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is chosen as a shining beacon for the people of Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the Wizard's rule. As Glinda's celebrity grows and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier Award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is tormented by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to reconcile Elphaba and the Wizard, but her efforts fail, further alienating Elphaba and Glinda. The consequences will transform Boq (Tony winner Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and endanger the safety of Elphaba's sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas intrudes on their lives. As an angry mob rises up against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba must come together one last time. With their unique friendship at the centre of their future, they must confront each other with honesty and empathy if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, forever. 

Giunti Odeon presents one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest masterpieces and one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, marking the 100th anniversary of its release in cinemas around the world (including the Odeon cinema in Florence!): The Gold Rush, which will be screened in a stunning new 4K restored version (with original English captions and Italian subtitles).

The Tramp, now a lonely prospector, ventures into Alaska during the gold rush. Nature is hostile, humanity is greedy, and the smile of love seems denied. 'A hilarious film, and one of relentless harshness' (Peter von Bagh). But in a hut made of nailed-together planks and draughts of ice (ninety years later, Tarantino would reference it in The Hateful Eight), the little prospector cooks a shoe and eats it with gusto; he spears two sandwiches with forks and creates, through pure magic, the most prodigious dance scene in the history of cinema; he seeks and perhaps finally finds balance on the edge of the abyss: because Charlie Chaplin ‘will always continue to believe in the potential of the human race’ (Goffredo Fofi). 

A masterpiece of absolute comedy and a great tale of loneliness, The Gold Rush is “the” film for which Chaplin would have liked to be remembered. In reality, he shares that fate with many others. But certainly the choice to take the Tramp to the roots (or to the precipice) of American mythology, to set his solitary figure against the snowy backdrop of the birth of a nation, makes it a work of unsurpassed, dizzying intensity.

The film is presented in an edition accompanied by the extraordinary musical score that Chaplin created, in collaboration with Max Terr, for the 1942 re-release. For the first time, The Gold Rush is thus restored to the highest standard of its visual and musical beauty.

Giunti Odeon continues its complete retrospective dedicated to David Lynch with one of his most famous masterpieces. Released in 2001 and hailed as ‘the most important film of the 21st century’, Mulholland Drive stars Betty, a naive dreamer from deepest Ontario who arrives in Hollywood with dreams of becoming a star. Waiting for roles and glory, she stays in the flat of her aunt, who has returned to Canada. Behind the door she finds Rita, a brunette femme fatale who escaped an accident and two gunmen who wanted her dead. But Rita doesn't know this (anymore) because she has lost her memory behind a curve in Mulholland Drive. Betty and Rita, the name is borrowed from Hayworth, investigate to find her, becoming accomplices and then lovers. The former excels in casting, the latter gradually reconstructs her identity. But the move to the cabaret ‘Silencio’ redistributes names and roles. Betty ‘wakes up’ Diane Selwyn in a miserable flat. Always blonde and always provincial, she tries to be an actress and only gets insignificant roles. She meets and loves Rita, who is now called Camilla Rhodes, is a star of the silver screen and is about to marry a fashionable director. Rejected by her lover and Hollywood, Diane hires a hitman to kill Camilla and then ‘dreams’ to regain her innocence.

Giunti Odeon presents a film that tells the Italian story of the Theosophical Society, which since 1902 has been promoting ethical values that are increasingly necessary in today's world, torn apart by conflicts of all kinds. The documentary narrates the genesis of the Italian theosophical movement and the influence it has had on the thinking and work of figures of great intellectual stature from the worlds of literature, science, psychoanalysis, politics, the arts and education.

The most eagerly awaited film of the year arrives at Giunti Odeon: the new blockbuster film conceived and directed by the great James Cameron, the third episode of the record-breaking saga: Avatar: Fire and Ash. Following the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.

PLEASE NOTE: for all days on which the film is showing, all discounts are suspended and the ticket price is always full price (€12).