5 jaar Lumière Mechelen: Filmvoorstelling La meglio gioventù

This is not an ordinary film afternoon, this is a day out. Six hours of Italy in two parts, with a long break, pizza and cake in between. From the flood in Florence in 1966 to the beginning of this century, you follow two brothers and forty years of history. You come out feeling like you have known the family yourselves for years. The timing is as follows: 2 PM-5:10 PM: part 1 5:10 PM-7 PM: break 7 PM-10:10 PM: part 2 Between 4 PM and 8 PM, the Broodbroeders come to bake delicious pizzas. In other words, the perfect way to stay in Italian atmospheres during the break. You can also buy pizzas without a film ticket. Nicola and Matteo, two brothers who initially share the same dreams and friendships, decide to turn their lives around when they meet Giorgia, a girl with mental health issues. Nicola decides to become a psychiatrist, Matteo gives up his studies and enlists in the police. The passions, the ideals, the turbulent love life, the intrigues, and setbacks of the two brothers and their family members are impressively interwoven with the major events of recent Italian history: the great flood of Florence, the fight against the Sicilian mafia, the great football matches of the Italian national team and the World Cup, the terrorism of the Rode Brigades, the Fiat crisis, the student protests… La Meglio Gioventù is a particularly fine, endearing, earnest, cheerful, and tragic family story with a look back at 40 years of Italian history, an epic that deeply touches and moves.