Corktown Cinema and Media City Film Festival present "Bodies in Space” Recent 16mm film works by Australian experimental film artist Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
After learning of a Cinecittà Studios casting call for a child actor, working-class nurse Maddalena (Anna Magnani) transforms into a consummate stage mother, overhauling the life of her seven-year-old daughter and steamrolling everyone else to secure an audition. Magnani turns in one of the great performances of her legendary career in the rarely seen Bellissima—a newly restored masterwork by Italy’s Luchino Visconti.