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The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella), 2010 by Paolo Virzì

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The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella), 2010 by Paolo Virzì

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Cinema Italiano NY (http://cinemaitalianony.com/) and YEX (https://www.italchamber.org/yex/)
(The Young Executives Committee of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce)

Present

a Night of Charity and Cinema

Total net proceeds collected (tickets, gelato and piadine sales)
will be donated to the American-Italian Cancer Foundation (http://cinemaitalianony.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=847f7462be17834e87dc90a39&id=ec902733a9&e=81ffc548cd)

Tickets available online for $15 or $20 at the door until capacity
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La prima cosa bella (The First Beautiful Thing)
2010 by Paolo Virzì

Meetup at 6:30pm - Movie will start at 7:10pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFJpbtWLHww

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Cast:
Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli (http://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=filmography&si=2&l=en&did=9022), Valerio Mastandrea (http://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=filmography&si=1&l=en&did=9122), Claudia Pandolfi (http://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=filmography&si=2&l=en&did=7721),

Plot:
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the 1970s to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband, a Non-commissioned officer of Carabinieri. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later. The whole movie is set when Bruno, a high school teacher who ended up living in Milan after managing to escape from Livorno and his mother, returns to his hometown to be at his mother’s side during her very last days, remembering all those key episodes of his family life through a long series of flashbacks.

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